Index

Adair, Douglass, 37–38

Adams, John, 5, 23, 27, 29, 32, 34, 36, 50, 67, 70, 93–94, 103, 105, 106–7, 112, 116, 118, 122, 126, 127, 151 (n. 26), 154 (n. 19)

A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, 15, 34–35

Defense of the Constitutions of . . . the United States, 53–55

Adams, John Quincy, 5, 74

Ames, Fisher, 6, 46, 61, 86, 87, 88, 90, 97, 107–8

Bancroft, George, 52

Barlow, Joel, 6, 46, 47, 49, 72

The Vision of Columbus, 51, 52

Becker, Ernest, 121, 130

Belknap, Jeremy, 6

Bland, Richard, Jr., 21

Boston, Mass., 31

Boudinot, Elias, 6, 27

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 6, 23–24, 35, 36, 49, 77, 124–25

Modern Chivalry, 125

Bradford, William, 30, 36

Britain, 14–39

passim, 74, 80. See also Constitution, of Britain; History, Whig laws of

Brugger, Robert J., 158

Callender, James, 85, 149 (n. 16)

Cincinnati, Society of the, 53, 144 (n. 9)

Colbourn, H. Trevor, 18

Confederation (of the United States), 42, 43, 48

Congress: Continental, 21, 22, 32, 39, 41, 109

United States, 85, 127. See also Jay Treaty, Seditious Libel Act

Connecticut, 91–92, 119

Constitution: federal, 5, 56, 57, 59, 66, 72, 87, 88, 97, 98, 123, 124

of Britain, 8, 21, 22, 58

of the various states, 41–43, 54, 55

and ratification debates, 1787–1789, 57–66 passim. See also Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia

Cooper, Myles, 26

Declaration of Independence (1776), 14, 29, 33, 123, 126, 141 (n. 25)

Disorder: as theme in domestic life, 41, 43, 45

as theme in political thought, 42–50, 87–88, 99. See also History, as order; Party, “of order”; Revolution, in France

Douglass, William, 20

Dwight, Timothy, 6, 52, 91, 96, 121

Greenfield Hill, 95–96

Journals, 121–22

Education, and ideas of revolutionary generation of 1776, 70–73

Elkins, Stanley, 5

Erickson, Erick, 2, 3, 8, 116, 117, 133–34, 142 (n. 32), 157, 158. See also Life cycle

Fame, as theme in history, 37–38, 102. See also Revolutionary generation, and use of history

Family, and study of history, 158–59. See also Psychohistory, and family

Father figure, 26, 34, 97

and king, 33, 34

as founders of the republic, 72, 73, 75. See also Revolutionary generation

Federalism. See Constitution, federal; Party, federalist (pro-Constitution)

Fenno, John, 88

Filiopietism, as theme in writing, 119–22

Fischer, David Hackett, 4, 119

France, 73, 74, 90. See also Revolution, in France

Franklin, Benjamin, 20, 102

Freneau, Philip, 6, 16, 33, 46, 49, 79, 80, 128–29

Galloway, Joseph, 22

Generation: as tool of historical analysis, 4–6, 8–9, 135 (n. 4)

older than revolutionaries of 1776, 18–23, 63

younger than revolutionaries of 1776, 83, 85, 105, 110. See also Revolutionary generation

Genius, of Americans, 36–37, 132

Gerry, Elbridge, 6, 30, 48, 98

Observations on the Constitution, 60

Giles, William Branch, 85

Gorham, John, 61

Greece, 56, 59, 61, 64

Hamilton, Alexander, 6, 16, 27, 30, 48, 56, 67, 68, 81, 88, 96, 97–98, 102, 103, 114

Federalist Papers, 59–60

Letter Concerning . . . John Adams, 106–7. See also Party, Federalist

Henry, Patrick, 21, 63–65

History: as discipline, 10, 30, 43, 72–73, 103–4, 115–16, 130, 131–32

of America, 11, 35, 58, 75, 111, 118

Whig laws of, 11, 14, 18, 32, 40–69 passim, 82

American separate from English, 14–39 passim

provincial, 18–22

of England, 21

American incomparable to any other, 50–69 passim

partisan, 75–101 passim, 102, 104, 106, 114–15

as process, 76, 78, 82, 84, 88

as order, 76, 92–96, 97

renunciation of, 104–30 passim

patriotic, 110. See also Puritanism, and ideas of history

Humphreys, David, 6, 36, 45, 87, 95, 119, 120, 121

Anarchiad, 45

Hutchinson, Thomas, 19, 20, 82

Independence, 14, 23, 36, 39, 44. See also Declaration of Independence

Jackson, Andrew, 5

Jay, John, 6, 22, 37, 42, 50, 58, 67, 89, 111

Jay Treaty, 80, 81

Jefferson, Thomas, 6, 23, 28, 29, 33, 35, 42, 46, 48, 66, 67, 70, 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 87, 96, 103, 106, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 122–23, 125–26, 148 (n. 9), 154 (n. 19)

A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 17, 35

Notes on the State of Virginia, 53–54

Kentucky Resolutions, 84

“Anas,” 113, 114

Kammen, Michael, 14, 76

Keith, William, 20

King, Rufus, 6, 46, 50, 61, 112–13, 127

Kohut, Hans, 142 (n. 29)

Lee, Richard Henry, 5, 22, 65, 139 (n. 12)

Levinson, David, 2, 3

Liberty, as theme in revolutionary thought, 15, 16, 75. See also History, as process; Party, “of liberty”

Life cycle, ix, 3, 115–16, 131–34, 157–61

and identity (youth), 2, 15–39 passim

and intimacy (community), 2, 41–69 passim

and generativity (parenthood, maturity), 2, 3, 70–101 passim

and ego integrity (old age), 3, 103–30 passim. See also Psychohistory; Revolutionary generation

Livingston, Edward, 83

Logan, James, 20

London, England, 31

Loyalism, in American Revolution, 26, 30

Luther, Martin, 24

McKean, Thomas, 5

McKitrick, Eric, 5

Madison, James, 6, 30, 56, 57, 64–65, 67, 78, 80, 81, 82, 117, 123, 124, 127–28

Federalist Papers, 59–60

Virginia Resolutions, 83–84

Marshall, John, 6, 29, 42, 87, 90, 105, 111, 112, 128

Life of George Washington, 88, 113

Massachusetts, 42, 45

ratification of federal Constitution, 60–62

Massachusetts Historical Society, 72

Missouri controversy, 123, 127

Morris, Gouverneur, 6, 87, 88, 110

Morse, Jedidiah, 91–92, 111

American Universal Geography, 91–92

Nason, John, 62

Nationalism, as theme in writing, 38–39, 142 (n. 32)

Netherlands, 61

Neutrality, as diplomatic policy, 80, 81

New York, 42

Nicholas, George, 67, 83

Otis, James, Jr., 21

Paine, Thomas, 31, 73

Party, in American politics, 84–85, 99

“of liberty,” 11, 74, 76–85, 99

“of order,” 11, 74, 86–96, 99

federalist (pro-Constitution), 52, 56, 57, 62, 144 (n. 14)

antifederalist, 52, 57, 60, 62, 144 (n. 14)

Republican (Jeffersonian), 81, 82–86, 113

Federalist (Hamiltonian), 82, 85, 86–97 passim, 98, 107, 108, 113, 121

Pennsylvania, 30, 43

ratification of federal Constitution, 63

Petillo, Carol M., 161

Pickering, Timothy, 6, 30, 87, 89, 90, 121, 122–23

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 26, 31, 48, 51

Pocock, J. G. A., 138 (n. 7)

Psychohistory: as method, ix–x, 10, 23–24, 157–58

and ideas, 1, 124

and aging, 2, 3, 116, 117

and family, 24, 33, 41, 48, 97

and death, 102, 121, 130

and narcissism, 142 (n. 29)

and psychoanalysis, 135–36 (n. 4), 141 (n. 25); 157. See also Life cycle

Puritanism, in America, 15

and ideas of history, 17, 18, 73, 90, 91, 150 (n. 24)

Ramsay, David, 6, 43, 45, 72, 99–100

History of South Carolina, 44, 52

Randolph, Edmund, 6, 14, 47–48, 64, 81

Revolution: in America, 4, 9, 14–39 passim, 51–52, 53, 67, 68, 74, 76–96 passim

in France, 68, 73, 74–97 passim, 126

Revolutionary generation (young men of 1776), 4, 5, 8, 25–26, 46, 47, 70–72, 99–100, 116–17, 129–30, 131–32

as concept, 5, 7, 13

as metaphor, 9, 23–24, 49

and use of history, 12, 13, 50–52, 72–73, 90–91, 100, 103–4, 114–15, 124, 129–30. See also Life cycle

Rome, 32, 56, 59, 62

Rush, Benjamin, 6, 31, 35, 43, 53, 70, 105, 108–10

Rutledge, Edward, 26, 42

Sedgwick, Theodore, 61

Seditious Libel Act, 82–85

Shaw, Peter, 10, 140 (n. 18)

Shays’s Rebellion, 45, 47

Sherman, Roger, 5

Slavery, in America, 123

Smith, William, Jr., 19, 20, 82

Switzerland, 64–65

Tucker, St. George, 83

Virginia, 17, 28, 65

ratification of federal Constitution, 63–66

War of 1812, 12, 105, 110

Warren, Mercy Otis, 126

Washington, George, 47, 97, 102, 152 (n. 30)

Webster, Noah, 6, 34, 45, 46, 47, 49, 57, 58, 70, 71, 94, 95, 119, 120, 121, 145 (n. 20)

History of the United States, 120

Wells, Robert, 7

Wilson, James, 6, 15–16, 30, 56, 63, 66, 68

Wood, Gordon, 42

XYZ controversy, 90

Xenophobia, as theme in history, 93–96