Alexis Coe | |
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| Occupation | Historian |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Notable works | You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington |
Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, exhibition curator and tv commenter. She is a senior fellow at New America and the author of award-winning Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (2014) and the New York Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020). [1] [2] [3]
Coe was an oral historian for the Brooklyn Historical Society while in graduate school. She was a research curator in the New York Public Library’s exhibitions department where she co-curated "Find the Past, Know the Future," the most popular exhibition in the Library's history. [4] [5] [6]
Coe has been published in The New York Times , [7] The Atlantic , [8] Slate, [9] The New Yorker , [10] and The New York Times Magazine . [11]
Coe published Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis in 2014. [12] In 2016, Coe co-hosted the podcast Presidents Are People Too!. [13] In 2018, she hosted the podcast, No Man's Land, which won a Webby award for Best Series. [14]
In 2020, Coe published You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, making her the first woman biographer to publish a biography of Washington in over a century. The book became a New York Times best-seller in February 2020 and was widely praised as genre-breaking. [3] [6] [15] [16]
Coe produced and starred in The History Channel's Washington series with Doris Kearns Goodwin. [17]
In 2023, she spoke on CBS News about the historical significance of the March 2023 Indictment of Donald Trump. [18]
Coe co-hosts The Duncan & Coe History Show with Mike Duncan. The show was announced in 2022, but its launch was delayed by two years as a result of complications in their respective personal lives. [19] [20]
Coe is a senior fellow at New America, a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
In December 2024, Alexis Coe turned her popular "the founders look like birds" Twitter thread into a 2025 calendar.
Coe was raised in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York to go to Columbia and Sarah Lawrence. She has written about her grandparents, who helped raise her. [21] She cared for her grandmother at the end of her life. [22] Coe shared a birthday with her maternal grandfather, who is her daughter's namesake. [23] She has an older brother. [22]
George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and planter who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War. He then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted the current Constitution of the United States. Washington has thus become commonly known as the "Father of His Country".
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This bibliography of George Washington is a selected list of written and published works about George Washington (1732–1799). A 2019 count estimated the number of books about George Washington at some nine hundred; add scholarly articles with Washington's name in the title and the count climbs to six thousand.
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington is a biography about George Washington, the first president of the United States. The book was written by Alexis Coe, a historian and former research curator at the New York Public Library, and is the third complete biography of Washington written by a female author. It was published on February 4, 2020, and appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
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