Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. CHAPTER 1: "To Make a Nation" 1
6. CHAPTER 2: "Dyed in the Blood of Our Forefathers": Patriotic Culture before the Civil War 10
7. CHAPTER 3: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home": The Emergence of the Grand Army of the Republic 29
8. CHAPTER 4: "Living History": Crafting Patriotic Culture within a Divided Nation 49
9. CHAPTER 5: "Oh, My Sisters!": Shifting Relations of Gender and Race 70
10. CHAPTER 6: "Mothers Train the Masses—Statesmen Lead the Few": Women’s Place in Shaping the Nation 91
11. CHAPTER 7: "One Country, One Flag, One People, One Destiny": Regions, Race, and Nationhood 110
12. CHAPTER 8: "Blood Brotherhood": The Racialization of Patriotism 129
13. CHAPTER 9: " I Pledge Allegiance ...": Mobilizing the Nation’s Youth 150
14. CHAPTER 10: "The Great Fusing Furnace": Americanization in the Public Schools 172
15. CHAPTER 11: "Clasping Hands over the Bloody Divide": National Memory, Racism, and Amnesia 194
16. CHAPTER 12: "My Country Right or Wrong": World War I and the Paradox of American Patriotism 220
17. Notes 247
18. Bibliography 313
19. Index 343