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
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
Belknap, Jeremy, 6
Bland, Richard, Jr., 21
Boston, Mass., 31
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 6, 23–24, 35, 36, 49, 77, 124–25
Modern Chivalry, 125
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
Constitution: federal, 5, 56, 57, 59, 66, 72, 87, 88, 97, 98, 123, 124
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
ratification of federal Constitution, 60–62
Massachusetts Historical Society, 72
Missouri controversy, 123, 127
Morris, Gouverneur, 6, 87, 88, 110
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
Otis, James, Jr., 21
Party, in American politics, 84–85, 99
“of liberty,” 11, 74, 76–85, 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
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 family, 24, 33, 41, 48, 97
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
and use of history, 12, 13, 50–52, 72–73, 90–91, 100, 103–4, 114–15, 124, 129–30. See also Life cycle
Rush, Benjamin, 6, 31, 35, 43, 53, 70, 105, 108–10
Sedgwick, Theodore, 61
Seditious Libel Act, 82–85
Sherman, Roger, 5
Slavery, in America, 123
Smith, William, Jr., 19, 20, 82
Switzerland, 64–65
Tucker, St. George, 83
ratification of federal Constitution, 63–66
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