America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920

Released on by Ellen M. Litwicki
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  • America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 Book Detail

  • Author : Ellen M. Litwicki
  • Release Date : 2013-08-06
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 13 : 1588344169
  • File Size : 54,54 MB
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America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 by Ellen M. Litwicki PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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