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

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 calci...

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Otros Autores: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959- (Editor ), Clarke, Frances M. (Editor ), Corbould, Clare (Editor ), McDonnell, Michael A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.