Will Americans Ever Lose Their Grip on the Handshake?
June 18, 2026
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as posted by the channelThe handshake has been America’s default greeting for more than a century. Tom Bartlett explored the Atlantic archives to learn how it survived both decades of germ anxiety and pandemic-era distancing:
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