Using America's obsession with Washington's hair as his window, historian Keith Beutler examines how "physicality," or the use of the material objects, was the most important way early Americans (1790-1840)--museum founders, African Amerians, evangelicals, and school teachers-- remembered the nation's founding. Beutler is the author of George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered the Founders (University of Virginia Press, 2021).
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Episode 5: Encountering the Past
Episode 4: Teaching History (K-12 Edition)
Episode 3: Thinking Politically Historically
Episode 2: The Culture Wars
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