David Stewart is available to speak on the following topics:

• The Summer of 1787 -- An overview of why the United States needed a Constitution in the summer of 1787, and the leading figures who molded it.
• Leadership Lessons of the Constitutional Convention -- A consideration of three strategies for leadership and persuasion that leading delegates employed to build consensus on the need for the Constittuion and forge agreement on bitterly contested issues.
• How History Lies -- Using vivid examples from the founding of the nation through the bitter Civil War, this talk challenges readers to evaluate the quality of the information conveyed to them and reveals the shaky foundations for some of our favorite historical anecdotes.
• The First Presidential Impeachment and the Legacy of Abraham Lincoln -- Examining the toxic political climate that followed the Civil War, and narrowly missed removing Andrew Johnson from the presidency in his 1868 trial before the Senate, this talk refutes widespread fallacies about what happened, why, and what it meant.