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Book Synopsis All about American Holidays by : Maymie Richardson Krythe
Download or read book All about American Holidays written by Maymie Richardson Krythe and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How more than 50 of our holidays originated and are observed today.
Book Synopsis Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays by : Robert J. Myers
Download or read book Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays written by Robert J. Myers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.
Book Synopsis American Holidays by : Barbara Klebanow
Download or read book American Holidays written by Barbara Klebanow and published by PLA. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis All about American Holidays by : Maymie Richardson Krythe
Download or read book All about American Holidays written by Maymie Richardson Krythe and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How more than 50 of our holidays originated and are observed today.
Book Synopsis All Around the Year by : Jack Santino
Download or read book All Around the Year written by Jack Santino and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 by : Ellen M. Litwicki
Download or read book America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 written by Ellen M. Litwicki and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Consumer Rites by : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Download or read book Consumer Rites written by Leigh Eric Schmidt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Year by : Anthony F. Aveni
Download or read book The Book of the Year written by Anthony F. Aveni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis America's Favorite Holidays by : Bruce David Forbes
Download or read book America's Favorite Holidays written by Bruce David Forbes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis History of American Holidays by : Jeffrey Bensch
Download or read book History of American Holidays written by Jeffrey Bensch and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Christmas in America by : Penne L. Restad
Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Book Synopsis The Folklore of American Holidays by : Hennig Cohen
Download or read book The Folklore of American Holidays written by Hennig Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Holidays Around the World by : Jeff Sferazza
Download or read book Holidays Around the World written by Jeff Sferazza and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do they celebrate Christmas in Thailand, or New Year's Eve in Iceland? What is Passover like in Israel? It's time to celebrate the holidays with people around the world. Readers are sure to be fascinated by the diverse ways people gather for and celebrate the holidays. Important vocabulary and cultural concepts are stressed in accessible text that's enjoyable for even the most reluctant readers. Striking, full-color photographs on each spread bring the diversity of our world's cultures into splendidly detailed focus.
Book Synopsis Patriotic Holidays of the United States by : Helene Henderson
Download or read book Patriotic Holidays of the United States written by Helene Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, symbols, and traditions behind the major holidays and days of observance.
Book Synopsis Memorial Day by : Christin Ditchfield
Download or read book Memorial Day written by Christin Ditchfield and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely redesigned for today's young investigative reader, A True Book is an indespensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture their need to know.
Book Synopsis Holidays and Holy Days by : Susan E. Richardson
Download or read book Holidays and Holy Days written by Susan E. Richardson and published by Regal Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidaus and Holy Days gives you fascinating facts and background about all of the major and minor American holidays, including Jewish feast days. It is a valuable resource for any Christian -- and fun to read besides! Book jacket.
