George Washington would have so worn a mask
- Written by Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
George Washington would have thought wearing a mask was manly.National Portrait Gallery, Gilbert Stuart portrait/A. Papolu, illustrationThe genre “What would X do?” – where X stands for a noted figure in history, say Jesus or Dolly Parton – is silly. And yet, as a scholar writing a new biography of George Washington, I...