ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Practices of NationalismPART ONE: Revolution, Nation, State 1. The Revolutionary Politics of Celebration Ancient Rites Festivity and the Origins of American Politics Celebrating the American Future 2. The Constitution of Federal Feeling The Crisis of Virtue and the Virtues of "Crisis" Celebrating Natural Aristocracy: From Virtue to Sensibility Inventing Federalist America 3. National Characters George Washington's Sentimental Journeys "I Live Here in the Midst of Perpetual Fetes" National Character: Ideology, Theology, PracticePART TWO: Elections, Sections, and Races 4. The Celebration of Politics 1800: A Different Kind of Revolution Nationalism as Partisan Antipartisanship Celebratory Politics as the Early Republic's Public Sphere 5. Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Celebration New England as America America Going South West Meets East 6. Mixed Feelings: Race and Nation Nothing But Union "Declaration of Independence! Where art thou now?" "The Africans and their descendants, will celebrate ." Epilogue: "You May Celebrate, I Must Mourn" IndexIllustrations 1.

The Repeal 2.Epitaph 3.The Continental Almanac 4. Federal Pillars, March 1788 5. Federal Pillars, August 1788 6. Reception of Washington at Trenton 7. Proclamation for a Federal Thanksgiving 8. Abraham Bishop 9.

The Jeffersoniad 10. Black Cockade Funeral 11.Toasts, for Fourth July 1804 12. Governor Hancock's Ball 13.A Peep into the Antifederal Club 14.Hunters of Kentucky 15.The Battle of Plattsburg 16. Bobalition Broadside, 1816 17.

Bobalition Broadside, 1822 18. Reply to Bobalition Broadside, 1819.