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American Holidays

Author : Barbara Klebanow

Publisher : PLA

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 17,1 MB

Release : 2005-08-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780866471961

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July 4th, Election Day, Christmas, and New Year's Eve: reading about our American national holidays is not only fun, it is a way of exploring our diverse culture and values. How do we celebrate Memorial Day? What is the history of Thanksgiving? What does "Be my valentine" mean?Special features: 4 appendices of typical holiday gifts, traditional holiday songs, readings for the holidays, a listing of other holidays in the US, the official national holiday of each country in the world.



Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays

Author : Robert J. Myers

Publisher : Doubleday Books

Page : 424 pages

File Size : 26,12 MB

Release : 1972

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.



All about American Holidays

Author : Maymie Richardson Krythe

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 46,35 MB

Release : 1962

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN :

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How more than 50 of our holidays originated and are observed today.



America's Favorite Holidays

Author : Bruce David Forbes

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 10,9 MB

Release : 2015-10-27

Category : History

ISBN : 0520284712

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"America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came to be what they are today, combinations of seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals the often surprising history behind the traditions of each holiday. The book offers a comprehensive look at the Christian origins of these holidays and also touches on Passover, the religions of ancient Rome, Celtic practices, Mexico's Day of the Dead, and American civil religion. America's Favorite Holidays answers our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the many ways in which religion and culture mix"--Provided by publisher.



All Around the Year

Author : Jack Santino

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 47,58 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780252065163

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Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.



Consumer Rites

Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 41,20 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN : 9780691017211

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Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites" that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality.



The Book of the Year

Author : Anthony F. Aveni

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 32,74 MB

Release : 2004-04-22

Category : History

ISBN : 9780195171549

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Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.



America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920

Author : Ellen M. Litwicki

Publisher : Smithsonian Institution

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 20,95 MB

Release : 2013-08-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1588344169

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From the revered Memorial Day to the forgotten Lasties Day, America's Public Holidays is a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the civic culture of America has been fashioned. By analyzing how holidays became a forum for expressing patriotism, how public tradition has been invented, and how the definition of America itself was changed, Ellen Litwicki tells the intriguing story of the elite effort to create new holidays and the variety of responses from ordinary Americans.



Thanksgiving

Author : James W. Baker

Publisher : UPNE

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 18,66 MB

Release : 2010-09-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1584658746

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The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday



History of American Holidays

Author : Jeffrey Bensch

Publisher :

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 26,64 MB

Release : 2020-11-23

Category : History

ISBN : 9781735967332

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History of American Holidays brings Americans together with inspirational stories about thirteen holidays. Each approachable, short read reveals connections between history, culture, and patriotism. Black and white illustrated chapters present engaging, home-spun accounts that leave the reader with an "I didn't know that" moment, as well as a sense of pride and gratitude.