TOPIC XVI
Revolutionary and Constitutional Legacies
Apotheosis of Washington
, engraving by David Edwin, circa 1800, referring to the glorification of Washington as an ideal
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Reading:
Bailyn, chap. 10
Countryman, pp. 89-166
Appleby, chaps. 1-2 ,(3-7 choose one)
OVERVIEW: