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 R. 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
"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
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.
