| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Ch. 1 | "To Make a Nation" | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | "Dyed in the Blood of Our Forefathers": Patriotic Culture before the Civil War | 10 |
| Ch. 3 | "When Johnny Comes Marching Home": The Emergence of the Grand Army of the Republic | 29 |
| Ch. 4 | "Living History": Crafting Patriotic Culture within a Divided Nation | 49 |
| Ch. 5 | "Oh, My Sisters!": Shifting Relations of Gender and Race | 70 |
| Ch. 6 | "Mothers Train the Masses - Statesmen Lead the Few": Women's Place in Shaping the Nation | 91 |
| Ch. 7 | "One Country, One Flag, One People, One Destiny": Regions, Race, and Nationhood | 110 |
| Ch. 8 | "Blood Brotherhood": The Racialization of Patriotism | 129 |
| Ch. 9 | "I Pledge Allegiance...": Mobilizing the Nation's Youth | 150 |
| Ch. 10 | "The Great Fusing Furnace": Americanization in the Public Schools | 172 |
| Ch. 11 | "Clasping Hands over the Bloody Divide": National Memory, Racism, and Amnesia | 194 |
| Ch. 12 | "My Country Right or Wrong": World War I and the Paradox of American Patriotism | 220 |
| Notes | 247 |
| Bibliography | 313 |
| Index | 343 |
