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The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century
In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women’s organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR’s efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation’s past were entangled with and strengthened the nation’s racial and gender boundaries. Taking a close look at the DAR’s mission of bolstering national loyalty, Wendt reveals paradoxes and ambiguities in its activism. While the Daughters engaged in patriotic actions long believed to be the domain of men and challenged male-centered accounts of US nation-building, their tales about the past reinforced traditional notions of femininity and masc...
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George Rex Genealogy
George Rex (1750-1821) was born near London, England and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1771. There is a chapter presenting evidence that he may have been the son of George III (King of England) and Hannah Lightfoot. He later migrated to Ohio. Includes Allen, Bower, Haver, Hughes, Leffler, Scott, Tarr, and related families.
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Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
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Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America
After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morgan demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of women in groups such as the Woman's Relief Corps, the National Association of Colored Women, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution sought to produce patriotism on a massive scale in the absence of any national emergency. They created holidays like Confederate ...
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