From Oratory to Scholarship:
Two Centuries of Talks on the American Revolution Given
Before the Society of Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey |
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Edited by Denis B. Woodfield, John W. Gareis, and John Saunders
With an introduction by Vincent C. De Baun |
| 476 pages, 7 x 10 |
| 22 illustrations |
| Cloth 978-0-615-19637-4 • $40.00 |
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When the Revolutionary Army disbanded in 1783, a group of officers
who had served in the Continental Line under George Washington
formed the nation's first patriotic organization-the Society of
the Cincinnati. Named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, the Society
today has fourteen semi-independent constituent societies-one
in each of the thirteen original American states and one in France,
our nation's great ally in its time of crisis. This collection
is drawn from talks given to the Society of the Cincinnati in
the State of New Jersey. The selections range in focus from the
late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. In form,
they vary from ceremonious orations, packed with classical references
and scriptural allusions, to genealogical studies, independent
research on little-known military clashes, and scholarly considerations
of the stresses that played themselves out in the forming of our
Constitution. The wide-ranging lectures, papers, addresses, and
studies collected in this volume appear in chronological order
and offer a unique view of the way our knowledge and understanding
of the American Revolution and its aftermath have evolved over
more than two centuries.
Distributed for the Society of the Cincinnati
Denis B. Woodfield, Treasurer of The
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey, is the
author of English Armorial Bookbindings
and Surreptitious
Printing in England, 1550-1640.
John W. Gareis
has served as Regent for the Sons of the Revolution in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and is now the Assistant Secretary of The Society
of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. John Van Dyke
Saunders was Professor of English at Mississippi State
University and is now retired. Vincent De Baun
served as President of Cazanovia College and Director of the Development
Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
