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

Contributor:

McDonnell, Michael A., editor.

Corbould, Clare, editor.

Clarke, Frances M., editor.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959- editor.

Series:

Public history in historical perspective.

Public history in historical perspective series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 327 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In today's United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large.From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted, divisive, and destructive war has calcified into a glorified founding moment of the American nation. Disparate events with equally diverse participants have been reduced to a few key scenes and characters, presided over by well-meaning and wise old men. Recollections of the Revolution did not always take today s form. In this lively collection of essays, historians and literary scholars consider how the first three generations of American citizens interpreted their nation's origins.

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, 1790's/1840's.

"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.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-61376-277-1

OCLC:

872121963