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Remembering the Revolution : memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War / edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public history in historical perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
- 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 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, 1790s/1840s.
- "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, 1776/1865.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781625340337
- 1625340338
- 9781625340320
- 162534032X
- OCLC:
- 844729408
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