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Author: Robert J. Myers
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.
Author: Barbara Klebanow
Publisher: PLA
Published: 2005-08-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780866471961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuly 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.
Author: Maymie Richardson Krythe
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow more than 50 of our holidays originated and are observed today.
Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780252065163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether 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.
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691017211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReexamining 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.
Author: Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780195171549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHalloween, 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.
Author: Bruce David Forbes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0520284712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Ellen M. Litwicki
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1588344169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
Author: Connor Dayton
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1448867460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily, friends, and food make Thanksgiving many Americans favorite holiday. This caption book uses accessible bilingual text to explain the holidays beginnings as a Pilgrim feast as well as to present some of todays popular traditions. Colorful photographs encourage readers to learn about the meaning of Thanksgiving and to share some of their favorite parts of the holiday.
Author: Jeffrey Bensch
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781735967332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory 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.
