Revolution 250 Podcast

First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America with Cassandra Good

August 29, 2023 Cassandra A. Good Season 4 Episode 35
Revolution 250 Podcast
First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America with Cassandra Good
Show Notes

George and Martha Washington did not have children together, but they raised Martha's children from her first marriage and her grandchildren.  Cassandra A. Good, award-winning scholar and writer,  joins us to talk about this extended family, and the lives they led in the period after the Revolution.  She tells their stories in her book First Family:  George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America. 

Professor Good's first book, Founding Friendships,received the Organization of American Historians Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in Women and Gender History, as an original exploration of the friendship relationships between men and women in the early Republic.   Her ten-part series,   "America's Founding Women,"  is available on Audible.