Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism

Introduction: The Attractions of Patriotism3Ch. 1Teaching Patriotism: Private Virtue for the Public Good in the Early Republic19Ch. 2Blood Brotherhood: The Racialization of Patriotism, 1865-191853Ch. 3Labor Republicanism, Race, and Popular Patriotism in the Era of Empire, 1890-191482Ch. 4Reading the Flag: A Reconsideration of the Patriotic Cults of the 1890s102Ch. 5A Christian Nation: Signs of a Covenant120Ch. 6Women, Citizenship, and Civic Sacrifice: Engendering Patriotism in the First World War139Ch. 7Patriotism in Orange: The Memory of World War I in a Massachusetts Town160Ch. 8Dreaming in Black and White: African-American Patriotism and World War II Bonds191Ch. 9In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II211Ch. 10Good Americans: Nationalism and Domesticity in Life Magazine, 1945-1960231Ch. 11Dilemmas of Beset Nationhood: Patriotism, the Family, and Economic Change in the 1970s and 1980s251Ch. 12Exalting U.S.ness: Patriotic Rituals of the Daughters of the American Revolution273Ch. 13Moral Patriotism and Collective Memory in Whiting, Indiana, 1920-1992290Ch. 14Talking Lords Who Dare Not Face the Foe: Civilian Rule and the Military Notion of Patriotism in the Clinton Presidency305Afterword: Nationalism in Europe323Contributors341Index343