Memory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare
marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois
territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical
understandings today. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by
General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary
War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who
marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York
state, to eliminate any present or future threat from the
British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried
out a scorched-earth campaign, obliterating more than forty
Iroquois villages, including homes, fields, and crops. For
Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many
others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over
the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for
settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites. The Sullivan
Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and
New York by a cast of characters, including amateur historians,
newly formed historical societies, and local chapters of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people
continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day, Memory
Wars underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the
dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national
commemorative landscape.
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
A. Lynn Smith
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
454 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-0696-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4962-0696-7 |
Barcode: |
9781496206961 |
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