[cripplecreek]

Josephine Pollard was already trying to correct the record that the progressives of her day were writing about George Washington in the early 1800s.

Freebie Kindle version here but they were teaching editions from the time.

The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable [Kindle Edition]

[Tublecane]

It’s a bit of a stretch, though, to call them progressives proper. Whatever they were that term is reserved for a later movement.