{"title":"The Expansion of Early National History Culture","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the rapid growth in the presence\u0000and role of the past in the cultural production of the early republic. The first half of the chapter charts the vast increase in historical cultural production in a variety of print forms and literary genres. The second half of the chapter explores one of the processes behind this increase in production by uncovering an informal network—including historians, antiquarians, poets, essayists, painters, publishers, politicians, and others—that provided supportive relationships for those engaged in historical cultural production. Ultimately, that network, and the support it offered, provided the impetus and model for the institutionalization of history culture in this\u0000period through the establishment of the nation’s first historical societies and museums.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130509070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE COLONIAL PAST IN THE IMPERIAL CRISIS","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the explosion of historical writing that took place in the political literature of the imperial crisis. In their political rhetoric, patriots began creating a newly shared colonial past, particularly by forging a new historical memory of their colonial origins. This newly shared past contributed to both colonists’ sense of themselves as part of a community with their fellow colonies and their sense of cultural difference with Britain. It then shows how colonists’ cultural reverence for the authority of the past shaped the ways in which they understood the actions of Parliament and the rhetoric of its supporters, whereas British actions and rhetoric were based largely on the exigencies of the present. These different conceptions of the relationship between the past and present, I argue, contributed greatly to the intractability of the debate and colonists’ emerging sense of cultural difference with Britain.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122367085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Colonial Past in the Early Republic","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines representations of the colonial past in the two decades following the end of the war. It explores how postwar Americans reimagined their shared colonial past in light of the present by stressing the colonies’ practical independence from Britain and internal unity from the earliest days of settlement. In doing so, this new shared colonial past contributed to both a sense of historical and cultural independence from the former mother country and a historical narrative that de-radicalized the Revolution by stressing continuity between the colonial past and present. It argues that reimagining the colonial past was a critical part of the efforts to create a shared national history that would foster national identity in the new republic.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127413254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HISTORY CULTURE IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY BRITISH AMERICA","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter gives an overview of the role of the past in British North America during the pre-revolutionary decades. It begins by offering a survey of historical thinking and access to historical knowledge in British America in the middle of the eighteenth century. Next, it examines the structural role played by the past in colonial culture and political, religious, and legal thought, showing the cultural and political importance of ideas such as “first principles,” custom, and precedent. It also explores the degree to which colonists relied on the British past for their imperial identities and on historical works and interpretations imported from Britain to shape those identities.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125054620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating a Deep Past for a New Nation","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the ways in which Americans sought, created, and promoted a “deep national past,” or American antiquity, for the new republic. The first half of the chapter explores how the use of Columbian, biblical, and epic symbolism all contributed to Americans’ sense of a past deeper even than that of the colonial period. The second half of the chapter explores the nationalization of both natural history and the indigenous pasts of Native Americans and their expression in the nation’s first natural history museums. The creation of a deep past grounded both in myth and the land was—like the simultaneously reimagined colonial past—part of a broader attempt to establish cultural independence from Britain, in this case by fostering a sense of national origins that transcended British imperialism and the British past altogether.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130324204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INDEX","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131046247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British Past in the Imperial Crisis","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the use of the British past in the political writings of the imperial crisis. Primarily, it explores how colonists’ interpretations of the Glorious Revolution changed during the crisis and how their new understanding of that event helped shape patriot rhetoric after 1767. Having previously served as the foundation of their identities as British subjects, patriots came to understand the Glorious Revolution not as having restored the balance of the “ancient constitution” but as having given rise to the doctrine of “parliamentary supremacy,” which allowed Parliament, in colonists’ minds, to exert absolute authority over the colonies and act as arbitrarily as any seventeenth-century Stuart monarch. This fundamental shift in their historical understanding brought colonists’ cultural relationship to the Glorious Revolution, and hence the British past, into question and resulted in the turn toward more universal arguments based on natural law after 1773.","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125634214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EPILOGUE","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxvh.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130034734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Past and ProloguePub Date : 2020-11-24DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0001
Michael D. Hattem
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Revolutions are often understood as decisive breaks with the past, both in the moment and by subsequent generations. For example, after the establishment of a republic in the late eighteenth century, French revolutionaries sought to erase their monarchical past by radically redefining their calendar and, in the process, their very sense of time. Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Stalin employed historians to craft an official version of its history with himself at the center and had historical documents that contradicted his own narrative destroyed. After a number of nineteenth-century colonial revolutions, many Latin American historians simply excluded their colonial pasts from their new national histories. For the United States, too, its revolution is often understood as a rejection of the past represented by the Old World of Europe, which was rendered irrelevant in the wake of the New World’s first modern republic....","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132665584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Past and ProloguePub Date : 2020-11-24DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0009
Michael D. Hattem
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"Michael D. Hattem","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300234961.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"America’s pre-revolutionary past did not pass into obscurity after the Revolution. Rather, it became even more important, developing a significant salience and resonance in American culture long after independence and the war. As unique as their situation was in the decades after the war, Americans understood there were things to be learned from their shared colonial past. More importantly, they understood that their colonial past could actually aid in helping to shape their republican present. Not only did the colonial past matter but they went even further by creating a deep national past that was instructive as well as entertaining, running through the very first examples of American fiction, poetry, drama, and cultural institutions. As the beginnings of American nationalism developed in these decades, the collective memory of Americans was shaped by their construction of the colonial past. Long after the Revolution there remained deep, abiding cultural continuities between the colonial period and the early republic, of which the past was one. Close study of history culture and these historical memories of the pre-revolutionary past in particular reveal those continuities and show some of the ways in which they were negotiated. Such study offers new insights into how early national America ...","PeriodicalId":200607,"journal":{"name":"Past and Prologue","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131492250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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