That's the one. Thanks, Mick
Jon

> You might be thinking of Richard L. Merritt's essay in the American
> Quarterly in 1965, "The Emergence of American Nationalism"--Mick
>
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> From: "Jon Kukla" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:51 AM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] "Americans"
>
>
>> Patrick Henry's declaration in the First Congress of 1774 was that "The
>> distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New
>> Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."
>> (Recorded, if memory serves, in a letter or diary entry by John Adams.)
>>
>> But I also vaguely recall a journal article, perhaps by Hofstader but
>> certainly by someone of his generation, tracking the widespread
>> self-referential use of the term 'American' to the 1750s - coinciding as
>> I
>> recall with the experience of the (variously named) French and Indian
>> War,
>> Seven Year's War, or Great War for Empire......
>>
>>
>> Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
>> Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
>> 1250 Red Hill Road
>> Brookneal, Virginia 24528
>> www.redhill.org
>>
>
>


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