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To Die For

The Paradox of American Patriotism

Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary

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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945

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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?

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Anti-communism, Slavery, Julia Ward Howe, Manifest destiny, Howard University, Eric Hobsbawm, World War I, John Mitchell, Jr., Progressivism in the United States, Woman's Relief Corps, Imperialism, Pullman Strike, Abolitionism, American entry into World War I, Alien and Sedition Acts, Americanism (heresy), American Protective Association, Militarism, Edward Bellamy, Harriet Tubman, White Southerners, American patriotism, And babies, Industrial Workers of the World, African Americans, Henry David Thoreau, Superiority (short story), Mercy Otis Warren, Confederate Memorial Day, Ku Klux Klan, Progressive Era, Patrician (ancient Rome), Edward Everett Hale, Jacob Riis, A. Philip Randolph, Brother against brother, Eugene V. Debs, American Protective League, Racism, Flags of the Confederate States of America, Total war, The Chicago Defender, Un-American, Knights of Labor, Civil Rights Act of 1875, What is a Nation?, Plessy v. Ferguson, Muckraker, Richard Henry Lee, Grand Army of the Republic, Rebel yell, Nations and Nationalism (book), Color line (civil rights issue), Committee on Public Information, Woodrow Wilson, Activism, Confederate States of America, High-water mark of the Confederacy, Leon Litwack, Smithsonian Institution, New Nationalism, Emancipation Proclamation, Liberty bond, National symbol, New Negro, Patriotism, The Leopard's Spots, Comrade, United Nations, War