Exploring our nation’s rich history in innovative ways, the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience draws scholars and citizens, college students and national leaders to a unique 18th-century town on the Chesapeake Bay. Our guiding principle is that now more than ever, a wider understanding of our shared past is fundamental to the continuing success of America’s democratic experiment.

The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship
The C.V. Starr Center and the John Carter Brown Library are pleased to announce a new fellowship which supports academics, independent scholars and writers working on projects relating to the literature, history, culture,
or art of
the Americas before 1830.
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$50,000 GW Book Prize Awarded at Mt. Vernon
The fifth annual $50,000 George Washington Book Prize was awarded at Mount Vernon to Annette Gordon- Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Gordon-Reed also won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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A Reunion Weekend Reading by John Barth
Join us for a special Reunion Weekend reading at the Rose O'Neill Literary House by
the legendary John Barth,
whose latest novel, The Development, satirizes life
on the Eastern Shore.
Co-sponsored by the Office
of Alumni Affairs and the C.V. Starr Center.
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