| Introduction: The Attractions of Patriotism | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Teaching Patriotism: Private Virtue for the Public Good in the Early Republic | 19 |
| Ch. 2 | "Blood Brotherhood": The Racialization of Patriotism, 1865-1918 | 53 |
| Ch. 3 | Labor Republicanism, Race, and Popular Patriotism in the Era of Empire, 1890-1914 | 82 |
| Ch. 4 | Reading the Flag: A Reconsideration of the Patriotic Cults of the 1890s | 102 |
| Ch. 5 | A Christian Nation: Signs of a Covenant | 120 |
| Ch. 6 | Women, Citizenship, and Civic Sacrifice: Engendering Patriotism in the First World War | 139 |
| Ch. 7 | Patriotism in Orange: The Memory of World War I in a Massachusetts Town | 160 |
| Ch. 8 | Dreaming in Black and White: African-American Patriotism and World War II Bonds | 191 |
| Ch. 9 | In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II | 211 |
| Ch. 10 | "Good Americans": Nationalism and Domesticity in Life Magazine, 1945-1960 | 231 |
| Ch. 11 | Dilemmas of Beset Nationhood: Patriotism, the Family, and Economic Change in the 1970s and 1980s | 251 |
| Ch. 12 | Exalting "U.S.ness": Patriotic Rituals of the Daughters of the American Revolution | 273 |
| Ch. 13 | Moral Patriotism and Collective Memory in Whiting, Indiana, 1920-1992 | 290 |
| Ch. 14 | "Talking Lords Who Dare Not Face the Foe": Civilian Rule and the Military Notion of Patriotism in the Clinton Presidency | 305 |
| Afterword: Nationalism in Europe | 323 |
| Contributors | 341 |
| Index | 343 |
