The shoemaker and the tea party : memory and the American Revolution /

The shoemaker and the tea party : memory and the American Revolution / Alfred F. Young.

Award-winning historian Alfred F. Young unearths a rich story of the American Revolution with this account of George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who took part in such key events as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, and then served in the militia and as a seaman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Alfred F., 1925-2012.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1999]
Series:History (Booknotes)
Military history & war (Booknotes)
Subjects:
Hewes, George R. T. > (George Robert Twelves), > 1742-1840.
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
Shoemakers > Massachusetts > Boston > Biography.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • I: George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840). A Boston shoemaker and the memory of the American Revolution
  • A man in his nineties
  • A Boston childhood
  • The apprentice
  • The shoemaker
  • The massacre
  • The tea party
  • Tar and feathers
  • The patriot
  • Soldier and sailor
  • Family man
  • Veteran
  • Hero
  • II: When did they start calling it the Boston Tea Party? The contest for memory of the American Revolution
  • Taming the revolution, 1765-1775
  • The destruction of the tea, 1773
  • Taming the memory of the revolution, 1783-1820
  • Merchants, mill owners, and master mechanics
  • The discovery of the veterans, 1825
  • Claiming the revolution: the radical challenge, 1835
  • The recoverery of the tea party
  • The appropriation of a shoemaker
  • Into history: the ongoing contest for the revolution.

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