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Remembering the Revolution : Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Public History in Historical Perspective SeriesPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613762776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Remembering the RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 973.3
LOC classification:
  • E209
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Revolution in American Life from 1776 to the Civil War -- Part I: The Revolutionary Generation Remembers -- War and Nationhood: Founding Myths and Historical Realities -- "A Natural &amp -- Unalienable Right": New England Revolutionary Petitions and African American Identity -- Forgotten Founder: Revolutionary Memory and John Dickinson's Reputation -- The Graveyard Aesthetics of Revolutionary Elegiac Verse: Remembering the Revolution as a Sacred Cause -- "Starving Memory": Antinarrating the American Revolution -- Public Memories, Private Lives: The First Greatest Generation Remembers the Revolutionary War -- Part II: Transmitting Memories -- "More than Ordinary Patriotism": Living History in the Memory Work of George Washington Parke Custis -- Plagiarism in Pursuit of Historical Truth: George Chalmers and the Patriotic Legacy of Loyalist History -- Emma Willard's "True Mnemonic of History": America's First Textbooks, Proto-Feminism, and the Memory of the Revolution -- Remembering and Forgetting: War, Memory, and Identity in the Post-Revolutionary Mohawk Valley -- "Lie There My Darling, While I Avenge Ye!": Anecdotes, Collective Memory, and the Legend of Molly Pitcher -- Part III: Dividing Memories -- Forgetting History: Antebellum American Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution -- "Of Course we Claim to be Americans": Revolution, Memory, and Race in Up-Country Georgia Baptist Churches, 1772-1849 -- "A Strange and Crowded History": Transnational Revolution and Empire in George Lippard's Washington and his Generals -- "The Sacred Ashes of the First of Men": Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and Late Antebellum Unionism.
Martyred Blood and Avenging Spirits: Revolutionary Martyrs and Heroes as Inspiration for the U.S. Civil War -- Old-Fashioned Tea Parties: Revolutionary Memory in Civil War Sanitary Fairs -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Revolution in American Life from 1776 to the Civil War -- Part I: The Revolutionary Generation Remembers -- War and Nationhood: Founding Myths and Historical Realities -- "A Natural &amp -- Unalienable Right": New England Revolutionary Petitions and African American Identity -- Forgotten Founder: Revolutionary Memory and John Dickinson's Reputation -- The Graveyard Aesthetics of Revolutionary Elegiac Verse: Remembering the Revolution as a Sacred Cause -- "Starving Memory": Antinarrating the American Revolution -- Public Memories, Private Lives: The First Greatest Generation Remembers the Revolutionary War -- Part II: Transmitting Memories -- "More than Ordinary Patriotism": Living History in the Memory Work of George Washington Parke Custis -- Plagiarism in Pursuit of Historical Truth: George Chalmers and the Patriotic Legacy of Loyalist History -- Emma Willard's "True Mnemonic of History": America's First Textbooks, Proto-Feminism, and the Memory of the Revolution -- Remembering and Forgetting: War, Memory, and Identity in the Post-Revolutionary Mohawk Valley -- "Lie There My Darling, While I Avenge Ye!": Anecdotes, Collective Memory, and the Legend of Molly Pitcher -- Part III: Dividing Memories -- Forgetting History: Antebellum American Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution -- "Of Course we Claim to be Americans": Revolution, Memory, and Race in Up-Country Georgia Baptist Churches, 1772-1849 -- "A Strange and Crowded History": Transnational Revolution and Empire in George Lippard's Washington and his Generals -- "The Sacred Ashes of the First of Men": Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and Late Antebellum Unionism.

Martyred Blood and Avenging Spirits: Revolutionary Martyrs and Heroes as Inspiration for the U.S. Civil War -- Old-Fashioned Tea Parties: Revolutionary Memory in Civil War Sanitary Fairs -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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