Chat Special - May 27, 2020
Today the Harvard Bookstore (virtually) hosted a chat between HCR and historian Lindsay Chervinsky, author of
The
Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation
of an American Institution.
The video of the chat can be found here (it does require registration
and a default donation of $1).
A few titbits: It seems that the Harvard Bookstore is
doing virtual events virtually every night for the time
being. Both ladies strongly endorsed (selective use of) twitter as a source for learning history. Three
places to start are the feeds of historians Kevin Kruse and Adam Rothman, and the feed for "historians at the movies", in which on Sunday nights
historians watch a movie together and tweet about it. Mount Vernon is closed, but its
The two historians answered a number of questions, but one point they made that I would like to stress here is in the
"what you can do" category. They stressed it is important to learn and spread good information. They
suggested gaining a
familiarity with some of the sites and twitter feeds mentioned above, and then sharing the information contained therein.
