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Season Six, Episode 5, Civics in the Classroom: Lindsay Chervinsky
June 5, 2026

This is Civics in the Classroom, a podcast series from the Center for Presidential History at Â鶹Éç in Dallas, Texas. Civics in the Classroom is part of the A250 Summer Teacher Seminar, America's First Principles. This program to promote innovative K-12 instruction in U.S. history and civics was designed by the Center for Presidential History with support from the U.S. Department of Education and in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In the first year of this three-year project, our workshops and lectures will focus on the causes and context of the movement for U.S. independence and the production and legacy of its most famous document, the Declaration of Independence.  

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinksy. Lindsay is a presidential historian and the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. She's the author of the award-winning book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. She regularly writes for public audiences in the Wall Street Journal, Ms., The Daily Beast, the Bulwark, Time, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. She’s also a former CPH postdoctoral fellow! We talked about her work at Mount Vernon, why civics education matters, and how some memorable teachers shaped her career as a historian. 

The music for this series comes from the album  by Blue Dot Sessions under an .