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

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction TheRevolutioninAmericanlifefrom1776totheCivilWar Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances Clarke, andW. Fitzhugh Brundage 1 Part I The Revolutionary Generation Remembers Warandnationhood Founding Myths and Historical Realities Michael A. McDonnell 19 “Anatural&unalienableRight” New England Revolutionary Petitions and African American Identity Daniel R. Mandell 41 ForgottenFounder Revolutionary Memory and John Dickinson’s Reputation Peter Bastian 58 TheGraveyardAestheticsofRevolutionaryElegiacverse Remembering the Revolution as a Sacred Cause Evert Jan van Leeuwen 75 vii viii ConTEnTs “StarvingMemory” Antinarrating the American Revolution William Huntting Howell 93 PublicMemories,Privatelives The First Greatest Generation Remembers the Revolutionary War Caroline Cox 110 Part II Transmitting Memories “MoreThanordinaryPatriotism” Living History in the Memory Work of George Washington Parke Custis seth C. Bruggeman 127 PlagiarisminPursuitofhistoricalTruth George Chalmers and the Patriotic Legacy of Loyalist History Eileen Ka-May Cheng 144 EmmaWillard’s“TrueMnemonicofhistory” America’s First Textbooks, Proto-Feminism, and the Memory of the Revolution Keith Beutler 162 RememberingandForgetting War, Memory, and Identity in the Post-Revolutionary Mohawk Valley James Paxton 179 “lieThereMyDarling,WhileiAvengeYe!” Anecdotes, Collective Memory, and the Legend of Molly Pitcher Emily Lewis Butterfield 198 Part III Dividing Memories Forgettinghistory Antebellum American Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution Carolyn Eastman 217 ix ConTEnTs “ofCourseWeClaimtoBeAmericans” Revolution, Memory, and Race in Up-Country Georgia Baptist Churches, 1772–1849 Daryl Black 234 “AStrangeandCrowdedhistory” Transnational Revolution and Empire in George Lippard’s Washington and His Generals Tara Deshpande 249 “TheSacredAshesoftheFirstofMen” Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and Late Antebellum Unionism Matthew Mason 265 MartyredBloodandAvengingSpirits Revolutionary Martyrs and Heroes as Inspiration for the U.S. Civil War sarah J. Purcell 280 old-FashionedTeaParties Revolutionary Memory in Civil War Sanitary Fairs Frances M. Clarke 294 notesonContributors 313 index 319 “This page intentionally left blank” ...