One Nation Divided by Slavery Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War

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English | ISBN: 1606352407 | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The centrality of the American Revolution in the antebellum slavery controversy

In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in "history wars" every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the Smithsonian Institution of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In One Nation Divided by Slavery, author Michael F. Conlin investigates the different ways antebellum Americans celebrated civic holidays, read the Declaration of Independence, and commemorated Revolutionary War battles, revealing much about their contrasting views of American nationalism.
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