Keith Beutler

history prof; author of George Washington's Hair @UVAPress

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Presidential use of charts: 1961 vs. 2026

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One of my pol-sci survey online students in a discussions post: "After watching the video of Joanne Freeman [ discussing _The Field of Blood_], right off the bat it was extremely clear that Freeman prefers to focus and talk more about the past rather than the present." 🤣@JBF1755

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On Jan. 8, '24, Celestis' space memorial company's Enterprise Flight launched a putative lock of George Washington's hair into deep space. Learn more & track it's orbit @ https://t.co/I5lrpNyJAC

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...A bit more detail.

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In George Washington’s Hair, @KeithBeutler explores the meanings that souvenir locks held for the Revolutionary generation and beyond, and contextualizes the preservation of Washington’s hair by focusing on specific people.

#ReadtheRevolution excerpt: https://t.co/A0HUKci6Dn

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😂 Brilliant!😂 “…Universities would be places for administrators to advance their careers. Education….student bots interacting with instructor bots.”
—satire by Gary Nance Smith, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College https://t.co/rrOiTTAhFY

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Like everyone, I was repulsed by news of SD gov. Noem boasting that she shot her puppy for being "untrainable." Today, I happened upon Wm. Blake's too-applicable warning ,c. 1803:
A dog starv'd at his Masters Gate,
Predicts the ruin of the State .

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...Another madcap comparison, here of physical properties of hair locks of George Washington, a grizzly bear, Andrew Jackson, and a Siberian mammoth that Browne's data (from an 1853 report in this instance) would make possible. 😆#themoreyouknow See too https://t.co/xDAFm5Cmr4.

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In 1851, P.A. Browne of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly, experimenting on their preserved hair locks, found that James Madison's snapped at 503 grains weight, but George Washington's hair sustained up to 1070 grains of pull. Learn more history @ https://t.co/Tw1X3KQGTd

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...That not-so-prescient prediction by House Speaker Longworth in 1929 that Herbert Hoover's administration would be as honored in American memory as George Washington's:

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Thank you @thephillyvoice for the cite, & for linking to ye olde map of institutions holding putative Geo. Washington’s hair relics! https://t.co/b4jIvZAwvZ

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227 years ago today, 15 January 1797, Abigail Adams assured John: "The Cold has been more severe than I can ever before recollect. It has frozen the ink in my pen, and chilled the Blood in my veins, but not the Warmth of my affection for" you. #AbigailAdamsonWinter

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...Appreciated the Houston Chronicle drawing on _George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered the Founders_ (@uvapress, 2021) to frame this historically! https://t.co/dZCzLVZmtw

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100 years ago today, lampooning Congress:
https://t.co/B249XR6MiN

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The NYT, on 7 Nov, 1862, judging Abraham Lincoln as too given to kindness to be emotionally equipped to lead Union forces to victory in the American Civil War:

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"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union…touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." – Lincoln, March 4, 1861

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…On to Quincy, site of an 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate: https://t.co/kD9Tk1SJnZ

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Coming this weekend to C-SPAN 2, in living color, a television 📺extravaganza (kinda, sorta, almost😆), "George Washington's Hair." @uvapress @MoBaptistU https://t.co/6qfqw6I3cC…