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Listening to America

#1447 The History of D.C. with Lindsay Chervinsky

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Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We're pleased to welcome back the noted author and historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky. She and Clay discuss how Washington, D.C. became a constitutionally created "federal reserve" and the nation's capital city, and also the ongoing efforts to make it our 51st state.

You can pre-order Clay's new book at AmazonTargetBarnes and Noble, or by contacting your independent bookstore. The Language of Cottonwoods is out on June 22, 2021 through Koehler Books.

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0:00.0

Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners.

0:03.7

As always, thank you so very much for listening.

0:06.0

We do appreciate it.

0:07.6

This week, we're so happy to welcome back Lindsey Chervinsky

0:13.3

and play the two of you talk at great length.

0:17.0

The entire show really about Washington DC,

0:20.0

its history, slavery in Washington,

0:23.0

the implications of statehood in Washington DC,

0:26.8

was a great conversation.

0:28.0

I really enjoyed it.

0:29.1

One extraordinary young woman, you know, about a year ago,

0:32.4

I saw just in a routine search in a bookstore her first book,

0:40.0

The Cabinet, about George Washington's creation

0:43.9

of our cabinet system of government

0:45.9

during his first term as president.

0:48.9

And so I ordered and read the book.

0:51.1

I thought it was a remarkable study

0:55.2

and very useful to me as a Jefferson scholar

0:58.6

and the presidential historian.

1:00.0

And so we contacted her and asked her if she might like to,

1:03.0

you know, the Jefferson Hour she graciously agreed to do it.

1:05.7

People liked her, we loved her.

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