{"product_id":"the-mother-of-washington-in-nineteenth-century-america-hardcover","title":"The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Haulman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered \"to worship at this national shrine.\" He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, mother of George. While dedicating the new monument that marked it in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Cleveland honored \"the woman who gave our Nation its greatest and best citizen.\" There could be no clearer valorization of eighteenth-century republican motherhood and its centrality to the nation's origin story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the role of motherhood in the commemoration of the American Revolution by tracing the creation and evolution of the Mother of Washington figure. Kate Haulman explores the nineteenth-century memory of an eighteenth-century woman known for and through her famous son, the nation's first president. Underpinned by a canon of stories about Mary that often involved George, the monument and the figure it memorialized overlapped, sometimes in surprising and even paradoxical ways. In print, in images, and on the landscape, memorializing Mary foregrounded maternal ideals based in traditional gender roles and ancestry in the public memory of the nation's founding. As some women framed their engagement with the state in maternal terms, other men and women used the Mother of Washington to link the virtues she represented to the nation's origins. Women memorialists finally took up the cause to complete the monument, finishing what elite men had begun decades earlier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen as now, groups used the past to construct American motherhood, as well as using motherhood to engage with the founding past. \u003cem\u003eThe Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/em\u003e offers fresh arguments about gender, race, and the politics of Revolutionary history and memory still contested 250 years later.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Haulman\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor of history at American University. She is the author of the prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eMaking Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives\u003c\/em\u003e. An active public historian, she has worked on several exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 6.9 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978227482925,"sku":"9780197631850","price":52.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/W1Wfw3CTiD9780197631850.webp?v=1775801135","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-mother-of-washington-in-nineteenth-century-america-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}