Proceedings of ... Annual Session of the Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, Held at ... PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Proceedings of ... Annual Session of the Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, Held at ... PDF full book. Access full book title Proceedings of ... Annual Session of the Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, Held at ... by Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Indiana. Encampment. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Indiana. Encampment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Indiana. Encampment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Indiana. Encampment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: New Hampshire State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Wallace Evan Davies
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674658004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Get Book Here
Book Description
Since 1783, patriotic societies have become an integral part of American history. The great number of Sons, Daughters, and Dames, and the alphabetical jungle of G.A.R., D.A.R., V.F.W., U.C.V., U.D.C., W.R.D., etc. are well known--and are often subjects of controversy. Wallace Evan Davies here recounts, in fascinating detail, the activities and attitudes of both veterans' and hereditary patriotic societies in America up to 1900. In a lively manner, he explores their significance as social organizations, their concept of patriotism, and their influence upon public opinion and legislation. At the close of the American Revolution a group of officers formed the first patriotic veterans' society, The Society of the Cincinnati--open to all officers who had served for three years or were in the army at the end of the Revolution. Thus it began. Then, after the Civil War, came the numerous organizations of veterans of both sides and of their relatives. And as some Americans became more nationalistic, others, becoming absorbed in family trees, started the many hereditary societies. After discussing the founding of men's, women's, and children's patriotic societies, the author describes their organizational aspects: their size, qualifications for membership, officers, dues, ritual, badges, costumes, and the like. In hereditary groups, membership wasdeliberately limited, for exclusiveness was often their strongest appeal. The veterans' groups, however, were usually anxious to be as large as possible so as to enhance their influence upon legislators. The appearance, beginning in the 1860's, of nearly seventy patriotic newspapers and magazines testifies to the rising popularity of these groups: prominent publications of the patriotic press included The Great Republic, The Soldiers' Friend, The Grand Army Record, The Vedette, National Tribune, and American Tribune. Many people turned to patriotism as to a sort of secular religion in which their increasing differences--in national origin and in religious and cultural inheritance--could be submerged; many others joined these societies primarily for social reasons. Once members, however, all became devoted campaigners for such projects as pensions for veterans, care of war orphans, and popular observance of national patriotic holidays; they also took to the field over desecrations of the flag, sectional animosity, the teaching of history, immigration policy, labor disturbances, military instruction in schools, and expansionism. In Patriotism on Parade we have a cross-section of American social and intellectual history for the period 1783-1900. In writing it, Davies quotes liberally from contemporary letters and newspapers which make lively reading, and he has had access to the many scrapbooks and voluminous papers of William McDowell--prominent in the founding of several hereditary groups--which shed new light on the early years of the D.A.R. and the S.A.R. in particular. His book will be read with interest by the general public, by historians, and especially by persons who have belonged to any of the organizations he describes.
Author: New Hampshire State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: United States. War Department. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Get Book Here
Book Description
