When “History Becomes Fable Instead of Fact”: The Deaths and Resurrections of Virginia’s Leading Revolutionaries

Glover, Lorri

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316018880.004

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“…When General Joseph Warren was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775, the Revolutionary War had its first great martyr (Purcell, ). But even after the war, as members of the founding generation began to die, localities, states, and sometimes the whole nation came together to mourn figures associated with unity—even as conflict frequently tore at the civic fabric (Dennis, ; Glover, ). This tendency reached its apex after George Washington's death in 1799.…”

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Death in early America

Seeman

2019

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Interdisciplinary death studies was born in the 1970s amid critiques of the “high cost of dying” in the United States. In the field of history, this led to pioneering works that contrasted earlier, allegedly simple deathways with elaborate and expensive 20th‐century practices. But because the broader societal critiques were imagined to apply principally to the White middle class, this narrowed the scope of historical inquiry to Euro‐Americans. With the rise of Atlantic and Continental approaches to early American history in the 1990s, the history of death broadened to include American Indians and African Americans. Still, work remains to be done to bring those groups into the history of death in the 19th‐century United States.

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Death in early America

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When “History Becomes Fable Instead of Fact”: The Deaths and Resurrections of Virginia’s Leading Revolutionaries

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