Red, White, and Blue Letter Days : An American Calendar /

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The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparentl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dennis, Matthew, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gedenken
Feiertag
Geschichtsschreibung
National characteristics, American.
Memory > Social aspects.
Holidays.
Historiography.
Collective memory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Americains.
Memoire collective > États-Unis.
Jours feries > États-Unis > Histoire.
Fêtes nationales > États-Unis > Histoire.
Collective memory > United States.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
Holidays > United States > History.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Historiographie.
United States > Historiography.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Identity, history, and the American calendar
  • 1. Political fireworks: American Independence Day, 1776-2000
  • 2. Haven in a heartless calendar: America's Thanksgiving, 1621-2000
  • 3. Reinventing America: Columbus Day and centenary celebrations of his voyage of "discovery," 1792-1992
  • 4. Washington, Lincoln, and the unheroic Presidents' Day
  • 5. St. Monday: Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the celebration of leisure
  • 6. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday: inventing an American tradition
  • Epilogue. The future of the past.

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