Dr. Douglas Bradburn is the President and CEO of George Washington's Mount Vernon, a position he has held since 2018, making him the 11th person to lead the estate since the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased it from the Washington family in the mid-nineteenth century. A distinguished historian of early America, he joined Mount Vernon in 2013 as the founding director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, before assuming the presidency. Prior to Mount Vernon, he served as Chair of the History Department at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774–1804, co-founder and editor of the award-winning Early American Histories book series at the University of Virginia Press, and the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the yearlong Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Bradburn has appeared on C-SPAN, Good Morning America, and CBS Sunday Morning, and was featured in the History Channel's docudrama Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history and economics from the University of Virginia.