Of thee I sing: the contested history of American patriotism

Introduction: Competing visions of patriotism

The revolution: Declaring and constituting a nation

The early Republic: Young, expanding, and divided

The Civil War: Testing whether the nation could endure

The Gilded Age: Wealth, empire, and resistance

The Progressive Era: From Roosevelt and reform to World War

The Depression and World War II: Beyond the Greatest Generation

The 1960s: Love it, leave it, or change it

The 1980s: Morning and mourning in America

Conclusion: Patriotismin the age of Trump.