Kick off your weekend at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park! Each Thursday Night at the Museum will be the most fun, engaging, uplifting, thought-provoking, perspective-shaping night of your week. And there are drinks. Join us starting at 5:30pm for pop-up activities, such as brief tours, games, and performances. The main stage comes to life at 6:30pm, light appetizers and drinks are available for purchase until 7:00pm, and the Museum’s exhibits and shop are open until 8:00pm for you to explore!

H. W. BRANDS PRESENTS FOUNDING PARTISANS: HAMILTON, MADISON, JEFFERSON, ADAMS, AND THE BRAWLING BIRTH OF AMERICAN POLITICS

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands presents the revelatory history of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain prior to the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing of the sort. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took a firmer hold in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, Brands has crafted a lively narrative of the republic’s early years as the Founding Fathers wrestled with competing visions of what our nation would be. Books will be available for purchase, and the author will sign books after his presentation.

Presented in collaboration with the St. Louis County Library Westfall Politics & History Series