Remembering the Revolution : memory, history, and nation making from Independence to the Civil War /
McDonnell, Michael A.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.