Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
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Part of the series Public history in historical perspective;Public history in historical perspective.
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- 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 f
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