TY - BOOK AU - McDonnell,Michael A. AU - Corbould,Clare AU - Clarke,Frances M. AU - Brundage,W. AU - Brundage,W.Fitzhugh TI - Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War T2 - Public History in Historical Perspective Series SN - 9781613762776 AV - E209 U1 - 973.3 PY - 2013/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 & -- 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4533175 ER -