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Summary:

"This book examines how physical relics, such as locks of George Washington's hair, figured into the construction of popular memory in the early United States"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The taxidermist
• The historical societies
• The freedman
• The evangelical
• The schoolmistress
• Epilogue: The continuing career of Washington's tresses.

Author/Creator:

Beutler, Keith, 1968- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

George Washington's hair: how early Americans remembered the founders [by Beutler, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: George Washington's hair [by Beutler, K.] (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021 — ISBN 9780813946504; LCCN 2021015814)

Subjects:

Collective memory — United States — History — 19th century

Founding Fathers of the United States — Biography

United States — History — 1783-1865 — Historiography

United States — History — 1783-1865 — Antiquities

United States — Biography — History and criticism

United States — History — Societies, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

E300 .B48 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780813946511 (electronic book)
0813946514 (electronic book)
9780813946504 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021015815

OCLC Numbers:

1249714674

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6530697 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302456466