The Trust for the National Mall invites you to join on Monday, May 19 at 6:00 PM for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning writer and author of The Revolution Trilogy, Rick Atkinson. This is the first event in its series of “On the Road to America’s 250th” Monumental Conversations in 2025.

The event will feature a dynamic discussion, overlooking the National Mall, about the founding of our nation, led by Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Atkinson will preview his upcoming release The Fate of the Day, which chronicles the spectacular history of the battles between the Americans and the British.