Founding Myths (69 page)

Rand, Elizabeth,
20

Randolph, Edmund,
147–48
,
363n25

ratification debates,
131
,
143
,
369n16

Read, George,
144–45
,
160

Reading, Massachusetts,
20

Reconstruction (post-Civil War),
143
,
211

Red Dawn at Lexington
(Birnbaum),
34
,
372n27

Redcoats.
See
British brutality, myth of

Reed, Joseph,
108

Regnier, Claude,
204

Regulators,
94
,
303–4
,
395n8

representation debates and small-state and large-state divide,
144–50
,
361n7
,
362n14
,
362n17
,
363n20

Revere, Paul,
157
; capture and detention of,
11–12
,
14
; death of,
14
.
See also
Revere, Paul, ride of

Revere, Paul, ride of,
4
,
9–26
,
88–89
,
296
,
312–13
; Adams and,
11
,
13
,
18
,
89
,
296
; folklore of,
10–15
; historians and legend,
13–15
,
17–21
,
22
,
333n33
; Longfellow and,
4
,
9–11
,
15–25
,
331n28
,
395n2
; textbooks,
21–24
,
312–13
,
331n28
,
332n32
,
333n35

“revolution,” definitions of,
40
,
291–92
,
348n10

Richmond, Virginia,
175

Rockingham, Lord,
245

Rodat, Robert,
208
,
227

Ross, Betsy,
49
,
343n29

Ross, George,
282

Rotch, Francis,
35
,
335n22
,
335n24

Rowe, John,
44

Rush, Benjamin,
167
,
282

Rush, Richard,
116

Russell, Francis,
373n28

Russia,
252

Rutledge, John,
153

Salem, Massachusetts,
83–84
,
87

Salem, Peter,
217
,
221

Salisbury, Stephen,
80

Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda
(Miller),
41–42

Sampson, Deborah,
49
,
341n10

Sanderson, Elijah,
19

Sanderson, John,
159
,
289

Saratoga, Battle of,
112
,
250
,
315

Scammell, Alexander,
374–75n14

Schaumann, Merri Lou,
343n21

Scott, Deborah,
228

SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization),
259

Second Continental Congress,
125
.
See also
Continental Congress

Second Treatise on Government
(Locke),
125
,
355n3

Seneca Indians,
265–66
,
272

Seven Years' War,
252
.
See also
French and Indian War

Shakers,
194

Shawnee Indians,
266–67

Shays, Daniel,
303–4
,
395n6

Shays' Rebellion,
40
,
93–94
,
303–4

Shelby, Evan,
237

Shelby, Isaac,
231

Sherman, Roger,
159–60

“shot heard 'round the world,”
4
,
75–77
,
84
,
87
,
94–95
,
249
,
301
.
See also
Lexington, Battle of

Shy, John,
97
,
102
,
279
,
377n30

Sierra Leone,
221
,
222–23

Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
(Wirt),
178

slave importation debate,
151–53
,
369n16

slaves and slavery,
205–23
; actual experiences in the Revolution and post-War,
209
; Continental Congress,
206–8
,
217
,
365n8
; Dunmore's proclamation of freedom,
205
,
211
,
212–13
,
216–18
; enslaved people who fled to the British,
205
,
210–13
,
216–21
,
373n3–213
,
376n21
; Federal Convention and slave importation debate,
151–53
,
369n16
; Federal Convention and three-fifths compromise,
150–53
,
363n22
; Founders as slave owners/defenders,
134–37
,
151–53
,
204
,
207–8
,
215–17
,
221–23
; Henry and,
368n14
,
369–70n16
; historians on,
210–15
,
374n14
,
375n19
,
376nn20–21
; Jefferson and,
134–37
,
359n41
,
373n3
,
393–94n2
; Lincoln and,
134–37
; Maroon communities,
221
; myth of patriotic slaves,
205–23
; Northern/Southern differences in story of,
215–20
,
377n30
; notions of equality in the Declaration,
130–31
,
134–37
,
359n40
;
The Patriot
(film),
205–9
,
218–19
; textbooks,
212
,
216–19
,
311
,
377n31
,
378n45
; Virginia uprisings,
181–84
.
See also
black patriots, myth of

Smith, James,
160
,
282

Smithsonian Institution,
209
,
306

Snowden, Richard,
91

Sons of Liberty,
46
,
339n58

South, Revolutionary War in: as civil war,
228–39
,
248
,
258
; Indian resistance,
267–69

South Carolina: brutality of Revolution in,
229
,
239
; Federal Convention delegation,
152–53
,
362n14
; Great Compromise debates,
362n14
; and patriot campaigns against Indians,
268
; slavery,
152–53
,
205–9
,
211
,
373n3
; three-fifths compromise,
152–53

Soviet Bloc,
259

Soviet Union,
179

Spain and the American Revolution,
250–51
,
389n32

Sparks, Jared,
290
,
293

Springfield, Massachusetts,
83
,
94

St. Andrews Lodge of Freemasons,
46

St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel of,
160

Stamp Act,
184–85
,
303

Stamp Act riots,
31
,
33–34
,
45
,
334n16

Stearns, Junius Brutus,
204

Steuben, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von,
103
,
112

Stevens, Elisha,
192

Stewart, Charles,
180–81

Stiles, Eb.,
13

Stiles, Ezra,
130

Stoneham, Massachusetts,
20

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
210

Stryker, William,
64
,
341n14

Stuart, Henry,
267–68

Sullivan, John,
265–66
,
272–75
,
386n6
,
388n34
,
389n36

Summary View of the Rights of British American
(Jefferson),
127–28

Sumner, George,
9

Sumter, Thomas (the “Gamecock”),
159
,
207
,
239
,
288–89

Swain, Rev. George,
62

Sylvester, Richard,
32–33
,
42
,
317
,
334n12

Tarleton, Banastre: and brutal civil war in the South,
227–28
,
234
,
237
,
238
,
239
; and Waxhaws massacre,
190–91
,
228–29
,
379n2

Taunton, Massachusetts,
83

Taylor, George,
282

testing, standardized,
316–17

Tewksbury, Massachusetts,
19–20

textbooks.
See
history textbooks

Thacher, James,
341n15

They Called Her Molly Pitcher,
69
,
347n54

Thompson, D. W.,
343n21
,
344n33

Thomson, Charles,
3–4
,
282
,
329n3

Thornton, Matthew,
282
,
390n5

three-fifths compromise,
150–53
,
363n22

Tilden, Samuel,
363n21

Topps American Heritage Heroes series,
69

Tories,
307
; and Samuel Adams,
30–33
,
42
,
44
,
47
; and brutality of the Revolution in the South,
229–39
; and Waxhaws massacre,
229

Treaty of Paris (1783),
222
,
266
,
269–71
,
275
,
276

Trull, Captain John,
19–20

Trumbull, John,
3
,
27–29
,
133
,
156
,
200–201
,
242
;
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill,
27–29
,
200–201
;
Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776,
3
,
329n2

Tucker, St. George,
178–80
,
230

Tudor, William,
194

Tufts, Samuel,
20

Tuscarora Indians,
265

Underground Railroad,
221

United Nations,
259

U.S. History in a Global Context
(Oxford University Press),
261

Valley Forge, winter at,
99–120
,
326
; battlefield casualties,
101
,
351n2
; commemorations,
118
; Continental Army,
91–120
; deaths from disease,
113
; desertions,
104–6
,
109
; and Hard Winter in Morristown,
107–13
,
117
,
266
,
353n36
; historians and,
114–19
,
354n49
; mutinies and other resistance,
104–7
; patient suffering,
101
,
105
,
112–13
,
114–20
,
285
,
289
; pillaging,
103–4
,
106
; temperatures,
107–8
,
352n21
,
353n24
; textbook histories,
99
,
116–17
,
118–19
; and true hardships,
101–7
,
111–17
; Washington and myth of,
113–14

Valley Forge National Historical Park,
118

Vermont,
130
,
218

veterans of the Revolutionary War,
116
,
289

veto, executive,
39
,
300

Vietnam War,
170
,
248

Vincennes, Battle of,
274

Virginia: Dunmore and Revolution in,
181–84
; Federal Convention delegation,
144–50
,
152–53
,
362n14
; Great Compromise debates,
144–50
,
362n14
; Hard Winter in,
108
; and Massachusetts Revolution,
91
,
347n9
; planters,
347n9
; slavery,
152–53
,
181–84
,
369n16
,
373n3
,
394n2
; three-fifths compromise,
152–53

Virginia Convention,
126
,
131
,
175–77
,
356n8
; Henry's “liberty or death” speech,
4
,
131
,
175–81
,
186–87
,
296
,
314