Graduation Year
2013
Publication Date
4-26-2013
Abstract
This paper discusses the difficulties of finding a single, common "American" sociocultural identity in the colonies before the Revolution. By looking at the use of words like "Americans" or "British subjects" to describe the colonists in colonial newspapers, I determine that neither colonial nor British writers had a cohesive idea of the American colonists as a single, distinct group with a unique identity.
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Florio, Emma, "The Problematic Search for an Emerging American Identity before the Revolution: An Analysis of Colonial Newspapers and Secondary Literature" (2013). Honors Projects, History. 49.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/history_honproj/49