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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: 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: Alexis McCrossen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780801487873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions and pitted a surprising variety of social, religious, and class interests against one another. Whether observed as a day for rest, or time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week.Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the day in the United States since 1800. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. Holy Day, Holiday attends to the history of religion, as well as the histories of labor, leisure, and domesticity.
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: 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: James W. Baker
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1584658746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday
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: Alfred Colo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1469184850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHerein are distinctly American holidays, excluding Christmas and Easter, which are global and more universal in nature, and much too expansive, requiring broader strokes than this shorter treatise can contain in its restricted space. Holidays remind our nation of Gods miracles: in His plan to fortify us all for lifes daily struggles. At Christmas, do our thoughts revolve around presents mostly? Is Easter only a warm anticipation of Spring, and is Thanksgiving, the quest for family reunion and a delicious meal? Remembering the spiritual origins of such special occassions affords us worship opportunities for Gods goodness to us, and to our families, friends and to our nation; through them we may reflect upon our blessings, while celebrating His greatness and bounty. Bearing in mind what holidays and vacations mean to our general well-being, let us exercise our down-time wisely as we each year of U.S.A. holidays, either head out or from the comfort of home, trade places without GPS-s, high gas, or air travel pat downs. Do come along then, for a free ride down some of my winding roads of personal experiences.
