Remembering the revolution : memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War
2013
973.3 R386 2013
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Title
Remembering the revolution : memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Description
xi, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
973.3 R386 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)844729408
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction: the revolution in American life -- The revolutionary generation remembers. -- War and nationhood: founding myths and historical realities / Michael A. McDonnell -- "A natural & unalienable right": New England revolutionary petitions and African American identity / Daniel R. Mandell -- Forgotten founder: revolutionary memory and John Dickinson's reputation / Peter Bastian -- The graveyard aesthetics of revolutionary elegiac verse: remembering the Revolution as a sacred cause / Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- "Starving memory": antinarrating the American Revolution / William Huntting Howell -- Public memories, private lives: the first greatest generation remembers the Revolutionary War / Caroline Cox -- Transmitting memories. -- "More than ordinary patriotism": living history in the memory work of George Washington Parke Custis / Seth C. Bruggeman -- Plagiarism in pursuit of historical truth: George Chalmers and the patriotic legacy of loyalist history / Eileen Ka-May Cheng -- Emma Willard's "True mnemonic of history": America's first textbooks, proto-feminism, and the memory of the revolution / Keith Beutler -- Remembering and forgetting: war, memory, and identity in the post-revolutionary Mohawk Valley / James Paxton -- "Lie there my darling, while I avenge ye!": anecdotes, collective memory, and the legend of Molly Pitcher / Emily Lewis Butterfield -- Dividing memories. -- Forgetting history: antebellum American peace reformers and the specter of the Revolution / Carolyn Eastman -- "Of course we claim to be Americans": revolution, memory, and race in up-country Georgia Baptist churches, 1772/1849 / Daryl Black -- "A strange and crowded history": transnational revolution and empire in George Lippard's Washington and his generals / Tara Deshpande -- "The sacred ashes of the first of men": Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and late antebellum unionism / Matthew Mason -- Martyred blood and avenging spirits: revolutionary martyrs and heroes as inspiration for the U.S. Civil War / Sarah J. Purcell -- Old-fashioned tea parties: revolutionary memory in Civil War sanitary fairs / Frances M. Clarke.
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Contents: Introduction: the revolution in American life -- The revolutionary generation remembers. -- War and nationhood: founding myths and historical realities / Michael A. McDonnell -- "A natural & unalienable right": New England revolutionary petitions and African American identity / Daniel R. Mandell -- Forgotten founder: revolutionary memory and John Dickinson's reputation / Peter Bastian -- The graveyard aesthetics of revolutionary elegiac verse: remembering the Revolution as a sacred cause / Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- "Starving memory": antinarrating the American Revolution / William Huntting Howell -- Public memories, private lives: the first greatest generation remembers the Revolutionary War / Caroline Cox -- Transmitting memories. -- "More than ordinary patriotism": living history in the memory work of George Washington Parke Custis / Seth C. Bruggeman -- Plagiarism in pursuit of historical truth: George Chalmers and the patriotic legacy of loyalist history / Eileen Ka-May Cheng -- Emma Willard's "True mnemonic of history": America's first textbooks, proto-feminism, and the memory of the revolution / Keith Beutler -- Remembering and forgetting: war, memory, and identity in the post-revolutionary Mohawk Valley / James Paxton -- "Lie there my darling, while I avenge ye!": anecdotes, collective memory, and the legend of Molly Pitcher / Emily Lewis Butterfield -- Dividing memories. -- Forgetting history: antebellum American peace reformers and the specter of the Revolution / Carolyn Eastman -- "Of course we claim to be Americans": revolution, memory, and race in up-country Georgia Baptist churches, 1772/1849 / Daryl Black -- "A strange and crowded history": transnational revolution and empire in George Lippard's Washington and his generals / Tara Deshpande -- "The sacred ashes of the first of men": Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and late antebellum unionism / Matthew Mason -- Martyred blood and avenging spirits: revolutionary martyrs and heroes as inspiration for the U.S. Civil War / Sarah J. Purcell -- Old-fashioned tea parties: revolutionary memory in Civil War sanitary fairs / Frances M. Clarke.
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