Sealed with Blood War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America - Purcell, Sarah J. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
Biographical note: Sarah J. Purcell teaches history at Grinnell College
Main description: "An exemplary study of public memory because of its wide vision, its attentiveness to context, and its careful delineation of change over time."—David Waldstreicher, author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820