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2004

  • Philander Chase's article "'The Debt Which Must All Pay': Tobias Lear's Diary Account of George Washington's Death" appeared in the November 2004 issue of Pennsylvania Legacies, a popular history magazine published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.


  • David Hoth's essay "On the Road with President James Monroe" appeared in Documentary Editing, a quarterly publication of the Association for Documentary Editing (Winter 2003, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 269-75).


  • James Guba's essay "Autobiography by Proxy; Or, Pastiche as Prologue" appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Documentary Editing (Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 31-36).


  • John Pinheiro's essay, "George Washington's Leadership Style and Conflict at the Federal City," has been accepted for publication in White House Studies, and will appear in print in early 2005.


  • Christine Patrick gave a lecture, "'One Who Loved Indians': Samuel Kirkland, Missionary and American Patriot," at the Dumbarton House in Washington, D.C. on June 10 2004.


  • John Pinheiro has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of history at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will be leaving the Papers of George Washington in August.


  • Philander Chase and Beverly Runge checked the text of GW's c. 1787-88 "Remarks" for David Humphrey's biography of him, which was published in the Confederation Series, 5:514-26. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development in Pittsburgh purchased the document which was then published in Fred Anderson et al, George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, April 2004). Philander Chase also wrote the introduction to this work.


  • John Pinheiro reviewed The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice, c. 2003, by Philip Jenkins, for H-Catholic@h-net.msu.edu, April, 2004. Link to review.


  • Philander Chase agreed to serve as an honorary member of the National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association (W-3R), and attended its annual meeting in Washington in April 24. This is a group of civic and patriot groups that are working with the National Park service to have the route that the French and American armies took to Yorktown and back declared a national trail.


  • John Pinheiro reviewed Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848, c. 2002, by Stephen G. Hyslop, for The Mexican War Journal, Winter 2003-Spring 2004.


  • Frank Grizzard and Christine Patrick gave a presentation, "Editing the Papers of George Washington," to the Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar on January 16, 2004.


  • John Pinheiro's op-ed, "Getting Away from the 'Quagmire' Cliché," was distributed to more than 300 metropolitan newspapers and other news services by the History News Service on January 4, 2004. The piece also aired as a commentary on OAH public radio program, "Talking History," June 7, 2004.

    • 2003

  • Jackson Turner Main passed away at his home in Boulder, CO on October 19, 2003. Main served as a member of the Washington Papers editorial board for two decades. Link to obituary.

  • Philander Chase, Christine Patrick, Frank Grizzard, Edward Lengel, and David Hoth attended the Association for Documentary Editing's annual conference, held this year in Chicago.

  • Edward Lengel is currently writing a book, General George Washington and the Birth of the American Republic, which will be published by Random House in the autumn of 2004. This full-length military biography ranges from the French and Indian War to the Quasi-War, and assesses Washington's capacity as a military commander in the context of America's growth as a military power. Based almost entirely on primary source material, it includes illustrations and almost a dozen maps.

  • This semester at the University of Virginia, Frank Grizzard is hosting a lecture series for the School of Continuing Education & Professional Studies, entitled "The Real George Washington."

  • Frank Grizzard presented a paper on Architectural Allusions to the University of Virginia in Edgar Allen Poe's Writings at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's conference in Missoula, Montana.

  • John Pinheiro and Jennifer Stertzer attended the 32nd Annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents June 16, 2003, sponsored by the NHPRC Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University of Wisconsin.

  • Philander Chase spoke on "George Washington's Road Memories: Washington in Western Pennsylvania" at the Mother Cumberland Reunion at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

  • John Pinheiro's article, "'Religion Without Restriction': Anti-Catholicism, All Mexico, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo," appears in the Spring, 2003, issue of the Journal of the Early Republic.

  • Christine Patrick has won the Thomas Jefferson Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government for The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, 11, August 1792-January 1793. The award for a documentary edition recognizes editors of a documentary history project publishing either a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of the federal government.

  • Frank Grizzard addressed the annual meeting of the George Washington Society in Wilmington, Delaware, speaking about Washington's birthday.

  • Philander Chase and Beverly Runge perfected the text of Washington's 1787-88 autobiographical "Remarks" for publication in George Washington Remembers, which will be published in early 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield. Philander Chase wrote the introduction to the volume.

    • 2002

  • Frank Grizzard spoke on the greatness of Washington at Mount Rushmore as part of South Dakota's annual Autumn Hills Expedition.

  • Philander Chase chaired an Association for Documentary Editing Session at Mount Vernon that explored the ways in which documentary editions are used in restoring historic houses.

  • John Pinheiro's article on the influence of American literature about Mexico on American soldiers' attitudes towards Mexicans and their religion won the Russel B. Nye Award from the Popular Culture Association for the best article in the Journal of Popular Culture in 2001-2002.

  • Frank Grizzard's George Washington: A Biographical Companion, the first encyclopedic work ever written on Washington, was published recently by ABC-CLIO, an international reference publisher located in Santa Barbara, California.

  • "George Washington and American Independence" was the subject of a talk by Frank Grizzard at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello graveside on July 4, 2002. The annual Independence Day event is sponsored by the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.

  • A presentation on "George Washington: His Friendship with Philip Schuyler and His Visits to Upstate New York" was given by Christine Patrick to the Friends of the Schuyler Mansion on May 21, 2002, at the Schuyler Mansion Historic Site in Albany, New York.
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