huzzah, huzzah, huzzah! for war and washington! the rebels, the next verse complains, laugh at all of your pomp. cheeky lyrics are printed on a broadsided, adorned at the top with a pair of relief cut profile portraits, assumedly washington on the left, and on the right, major general artemis ward, who one writer discussed as heavyset and pious-looking. george washington's patient willingness to pose for artists produced for future generations multiple portraits made from life to help us understand the man who anchors so much of the nation's founding history. i'm sure you are familiar with those paintings and sculptures. my goal is to take you beyond yesse artists' discerning e to suggest another view of washington that is circulated broadly through all levels of society during his own day. what these images lack in refinement they make up for in which hasfervor, interesting implications for the nature of washington's leadership and the dissemination of his fame way before the posthumous mythmaking began. at the beginning of the re

[ cheering ] huzzah! quick question. s_ today is election day? well, yes, hortense. did you forget? today is election day! [ cheering ] yes! no, of course not. i'm a suffragette. but, to clarify, we don't have to vote. no, you won't get in trouble, but you must vote. you must vote, for generations of women have struggled to give us this very opportunity! yeah, mm-hmm, but thing g , on tuesdays, i work at the cannery, and they oy give us 90 minutes for lunch, and i want to try out this new sandwich place, but to go totohe sandwich place and then go to the polls all in that time might be a little-- little tightlittle tight. [ groaning ] but you simply must vote. i will. i will. who are the candidates? [ groaning ]ou it's warren harding and james m. cox. two dudes, of course. and who's ahead? the polls say that harding should win by a landslide. so in theory, just talking it out, if dude's gonna win by a landslide, my vote's not gonna make a huge difference. no! [ chatter ] hortense! ok, i'm very glad we ended this women's suffrage thing-- [ groaning ] no! women's suffrage is good! ah,