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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dennis, Matthew, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2002.
Sujets:
Holidays > United States > History.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American.
Collective memory > United States.
Fêtes nationales > États-Unis > Histoire.
Jours fériés > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis.
Américains.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Collective memory.
Historiography.
Holidays.
Memory > Social aspects.
Geschichtsschreibung
Feiertag
Gedenken
United States > Historiography.
États-Unis > Historiographie.
United States.
USA.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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