The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America

The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth Century America examines the public memory of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George, tracing the creation and evolution of the "Mother of Washington" figure, and revealing the importance of maternal ideals in commemorating and contesting the American Revolution in subsequent decades.

List of contents

• Introduction: Monumental Motherhood


• 1: The Death and Rebirth of Mary Washington, 1789-1808


• 2: The Mother of Washington and Her Monument


• 3: Mother Mary


• 4: The RuinMary's Monument, 1833-1875


• 5: The Nation's Matriline


• 6: By Her Countrywomen


• Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting: The Monument in the Twentieth Century

About the author

Kate Haulman is an associate professor of history at American University. She is the author of the prize-winning The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America and co-editor of Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives. An active public historian, she has worked on several exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Haulman, Haulman Kate
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197631850
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763185-0
• Weight: 3 g
• Illustrations: 29 black and white illustrations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Specific wars and campaigns, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), American War of Independence, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period)