Historic Christ Church & Museum’s 2024 Summer Speaker Series “The First Three: From Washington to Jefferson” concludes next week with a look at the presidency of John Adams.
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky will give her talk on “Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic” at 5 p.m. next Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Lancaster County site.
Chervinsky will investigate the leadership and legacy of Adams, whose presidency marked a period critical to the survival of the American republic and helped define the office for those who followed, said HCC&M executive director Robert Teagle. According to Chervinsky, Adams faced enormous challenges at home and abroad alongside impossible expectations as Washington’s successor in a new nation unsure if the presidency could even work without the father of the country at the helm. Relying on his own ideas about executive power and the Constitution, Adams defended the presidency from his own often obstructionist cabi...