To Die For
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Brother against brother
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
Color line (civil rights issue)
Committee on Public Information
Comrade
Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate States of America
Edward Bellamy
Edward Everett Hale
Emancipation Proclamation
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Eric Hobsbawm
Eugene V. Debs
Flags of the Confederate States of America
Grand Army of the Republic
Harriet Tubman
Henry David Thoreau
High-water mark of the Confederacy
Howard University
Imperialism
Industrial Workers of the World
Jacob Riis
John Mitchell
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Julia Ward Howe
Knights of Labor
Ku Klux Klan
Leon Litwack
Liberty bond
Manifest destiny
Mercy Otis Warren
Militarism
Muckraker
National symbol
Nations and Nationalism (book)
New Nationalism
New Negro
Patrician (ancient Rome)
Patriotism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Progressive Era
Progressivism in the United States
Pullman Strike
Racism
Rebel yell
Richard Henry Lee
Slavery
Smithsonian Institution
Superiority (short story)
The Chicago Defender
The Leopard's Spots
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United Nations
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What is a Nation?
White Southerners
Woman's Relief Corps
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World War I
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- ISBN 9780691070520
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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July Fourth, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Memorial Day, and the pledge of allegiance are typically thought of as timeless and consensual representations of a national, American culture. In fact, as Cecilia O'Leary shows, most trappings of the nation's icons were modern inventions that were deeply and bitterly contested. While the Civil War determined the survival of the Union, what it meant to be a loyal American remained an open question as the struggle to make a nation moved off of the battlefields and into cultural and political terrain. Drawing upon a wide variety of original sources, O'Leary's interdisciplinary study explores the conflict over what events and icons would be inscribed into national memory, what traditions would be invented to establish continuity with a "suitable past," who would be exemplified as national heroes, and whether ethnic, regional, and other identities could coexist with loyalty to the nation. This book traces the origins, development, and consolidation of patriotic cultures in the United States from the latter half of the nineteenth century up to World War I, a period in which the country emerged as a modern nation-state.
Until patriotism became a government-dominated affair in the twentieth century, culture wars raged throughout civil society over who had the authority to speak for the nation: Black Americans, women's organizations, workers, immigrants, and activists all spoke out and deeply influenced America's public life. Not until World War I, when the government joined forces with right-wing organizations and vigilante groups, did a racially exclusive, culturally conformist, militaristic patriotism finally triumph, albeit temporarily, over more progressive, egalitarian visions. As O'Leary suggests, the paradox of American patriotism remains with us. Are nationalism and democratic forms of citizenship compatible? What binds a nation so divided by regions, languages, ethnicity, racism, gender, and class? The most thought-provoking question of this complex book is, Who gets to claim the American flag and determine the meanings of the republic for which it stands?
Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary is Assistant Professor of History at the California State University, Monterey Bay, where she is also Co-Director of the Oral History and Community Memory Institute.
