Themes of the American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln, Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863, in Parish,
Abraham Lincoln Speeches and Letters, pp. Paul C. Nagel, One Nation Indivisible The Union in American Thought, 1776–1861 (New York and Oxford, 1964), pp. 3, 177. See also Nagel, This Sacred Trust American Nationality,
1798–1898 (New York and Oxford, George Dangerfield, The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815–1828 (New York, The Union’s relative weakness prior to the Civil War, and the role of the war in establishing both the Union and American nationalism, are discussed in, among others, Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, MA, and London, 1992), and Richard
Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan The Origins of Central State Authority in America,
1859–1877 (New York and Cambridge, One of the earliest studies of American nationalism is to be found in Hans Kohn, The Idea of
Nationalism: A Study in its Origins and Background (New York, 1945), followed by his
American Nationalism An Interpretative Essay (New York, 1957). More recent studies which assess the colonial and revolutionary eras include Greenfeld, Nationalism, and Anthony D. Smith, Origin of Nation Times Higher Education Supplement, January 8, 1993, pp. For additional commentary on this, see Susan-Mary Grant, When is a Nation not a Nation?
The Crisis of American Nationality in the Mid-nineteenth Century Nations and Nationalism
2: 1 (1996), pp. Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street Festive Culture in the early American
Republic (Philadelphia, PA, 1997), p. 6. See also David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual
Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820 (Chapel Hill, NC, and London,
1997).
10.
Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes, pp. 6, 9. On this subject see also Newman,
Parades and the Politics of the Street, pp. 112–13, and Grant, When is a nation not a nation?”
p. Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation The United States in Historical and Comparative
Perspective (1963, repr. New York and London, 1979), p. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans The National Experience (1965, repr. New York and
London, 1988), pp. 400–1. The same point is made by John M. Murrin in A Roof without
Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity in Richard Beeman et al., eds, Beyond
Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Chapel Hill, NC,
and London, 1987), pp. 333–48, p. Linda Kerber, Federalists in Dissent Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (1970, repr.
Ithaca, NY, and London, 1983), pp. 1–35, quotation at p. 34. On the Federalists and the South,
see also Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes, pp. 251–62; Haumphreys quoted in
Ernest Lee Tuveson, Redeemer Nation The Idea of America’s Millennial Role (Chicago, IL, and
London: University of Chicago Press, 1968) pp. 121; Elizabeth R. Varon, Disunion! The
Coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina
Press, 2008) pp. 1, 7.
14.
Varon, Disunion, p. 5; Boorstin, The Americans The National Experience, p. This point is explored further in Susan-Mary Grant, Making History Myth and the
Construction of American Nationhood in Geoffrey Hosking and Georg Schöpflin, eds, Myths and Nationhood (London, 1997), pp. 88–106, and see also John Shy, A People

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