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The American Revolution ended in 1781.  The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.  George Washington was elected our country's first president in 1788 and sworn in 1789.  Besides the Constitutional Convention 1787, there has not been significant  scholarly study into what George Washington was doing in the intervening years between the end of the Revolutionary War and his election as President.  Our guest today wrote a book on those years called, "The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789" and will chat with our student panel on Washington's role in laying the groundwork for the new country during those years.  Dr. Ed Larson is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and serves as a senior fellow of the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education and is currently University Professor of History at Pepperdine University.