History + History = Five?

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Oct 18, 2022 · 36m

If you ask one hundred Americans, who is the best American citizen of ALL time? I've never done that, but my guess is the overwhelming answer would be George Washington. There is an almost worshipful quality that we take towards him, perhaps with some justification, as we have painted his deification onto the ceiling of our Capitol Dome.

We have a corporate memory of him that fits both our need for the hero and our understanding of who we are as a people - perhaps flawed by strong. Here's the question though, do we honestly believe that everybody who lived back then just loved and adored…