Acknowledgments... xi
IntroductionThe Revolution in American Life from 1776 to the Civil WarMichael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage... 1
Part IThe Revolutionary Generation Remembers
War and NationhoodFounding Myths and Historical RealitiesMichael A. McDonnell... 19
"A Natural & Unalienable Right"New England Revolutionary Petitions and African American IdentityDaniel R. Mandell... 41
Forgotten FounderRevolutionary Memory and John Dickinson's ReputationPeter Bastian... 58
The Graveyard Aesthetics of Revolutionary Elegiac VerseRemembering the Revolution as a Sacred CauseEvert Jan van Leeuwen... 75
"Starving Memory"Antinarrating the American RevolutionWilliam Huntting Howell... 93
Public Memories, Private LivesThe First Greatest Generation Remembers the Revolutionary WarCaroline Cox... 110
Part IITransmitting Memories
"More Than Ordinary Patriotism"Living History in the Memory Work of George Washington Parke CustisSeth C. Bruggeman... 127
Plagiarism in Pursuit of Historical TruthGeorge Chalmers and the Patriotic Legacy of Loyalist HistoryEileen Ka-May Cheng... 144
Emma Willard's "True Mnemonic of History"America's First Textbooks, Proto-Feminism, and the Memory of the RevolutionKeith Beutler... 162
Remembering and ForgettingWar, Memory, and Identity in the Post-Revolutionary Mohawk ValleyJames Paxton... 179
"Lie There My Darling, While I Avenge Ye!"Anecdotes, Collective Memory, and the Legend of Molly PitcherEmily Lewis Butterfield... 198
Part IIIDividing Memories
Forgetting HistoryAntebellum American Peace Reformers and the Specter of the RevolutionCarolyn Eastman... 217
"Of Course We Claim to Be Americans"Revolution, Memory, and Race in Up-Country Georgia Baptist Churches, 1772--1849Daryl Black... 234
"A Strange and Crowded History"Transnational Revolution and Empire in George Lippard's Washington and His GeneralsTara Deshpande... 249
"The Sacred Ashes of the First of Men"Edward Everett, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and Late Antebellum UnionismMatthew Mason... 265
Martyred Blood and Avenging SpiritsRevolutionary Martyrs and Heroes as Inspiration for the U.S. Civil WarSarah J. Purcell... 280
Old-Fashioned Tea PartiesRevolutionary Memory in Civil War Sanitary FairsFrances M. Clarke... 294
Notes on Contributors... 313
Index... 319