That is the question every man through time has faced. In today's episode we will delve into the social, political, and economic pressures that have influenced whether or not men as a class favor hair on their face throughout history.

Shownotes

• Episode Photo is of President Rutherford Hayes, POTUS with the longest beard, public domain accessed via Wikimedia Commons
• Sound clip is from an interview of the Duck Dynasty cast on Jimmy Kimmel Live show, from youtube
• Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-had-best-civil-war-facial-hair-180951965/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
• https://daily.jstor.org/hair-gender-and-social-status-in-ancient-egypt/
• https://uk.bulldogskincare.com/blogs/news/when-in-rome-the-ancient-history-of-traditional-shaving#:~:text=Beards%20among%20Romans%20was%20revived,out%20of%20fashion%20ever%20since.
• https://www.grunge.com/790046/why-ancient-egyptians-shaved-all-their-hair/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/3829878
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555278/
• https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/a-brief-history-of-beards/
• https://www.truefittandhill.com/blogs/journal/history-of-beards-and-facial-hair
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beards-mustaches-weird-history
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stubble-and-statecraft-how-beards-grew-political
• https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/28/21077676/beard-change-politics-beto-orourke-al-gore-david-letterman-conan-obrien
• https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/12/politicians-with-beards-000559/?slide=0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military
• https://www.wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Walsh-Devan.pdf
• https://www.indianamuseum.org/blog-post/whiskers-for-votes-or-why-abraham-lincoln-grew-a-beard/
• https://medium.com/@evgeny_o/why-the-greeks-grew-a-beard-while-the-romans-did-not-5d52a91c989#:~:text=The%20Romans%20believed%20that%20a,age%20solemnly%20shaved%20it%20off.
• https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Barba.html