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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479926103321

Autore

Schocket Andrew M

Titolo

Fighting over the Founders : How We Remember the American Revolution / / Andrew M. Schocket

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York Univ. Press, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2015

ISBN

0-8147-7115-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

973.3

Soggetti

Amerikanische Revolution

Erinnerung

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Truths That Are Not Self-Evident -- 2 We Have Not Yet Begun to Write -- 3 We the Tourists -- 4 Give Me Liberty’s Kids -- 5 To Re-create a More Perfect Union -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

"The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation's aspirations. Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It's also a site to work out the present, and the future. What are we using the Revolution to debate? In Fighting over the Founders, Andrew M. Schocket explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. Identifying competing 'essentialist' and



'organicist' interpretations of the American Revolution, Schocket shows how today's memories of the American Revolution reveal American's conflicted ideas about class, about race, and about gender--as well as the nature of history itself. Fighting over the Founders plumbs our views of the past and the present, and illuminates our ideas of what United States means to its citizens in the new millennium"-