American Nationality: Wartime essays reveal the shift in the nation's identity
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How Americans perceived their country underwent a dramatic change during the Civil War, shifting from a view of the United States in the plural to an embrace of a singular national identity. Two essays, one published in 1864 and another in 1865, tell the larger story.
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