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Encyclopedia of American holidays and national days
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Encyclopedia of American holidays and national days

著者: Len Travers
出版商: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
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Every holiday has a history, and this set sets out to describe them all. A chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, past, present, and emergent, it focuses on each holiday's cultural and political significance.
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类型/形式: Encyclopedias
附加的形体格式: Online version:
Encyclopedia of American holidays and national days.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006
(OCoLC)619953354
材料类型: 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: Len Travers
ISBN: 0313331308 0313331316 0313331324 9780313331305 9780313331312 9780313331329
OCLC号码: 62697095
描述: 2 v. (xvi, 614 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
内容: v. 1. Introduction --
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday / Clayborne Carson --
The Monday Holidays Act and other "Saint Mondays" --
Holidays for heroes of the lost cause: Lee, Jackson, and Davis / Karen L. Cox --
Super Bowl Sunday: an American holiday? / Peter Hopsicker and Mark S. Dyreson --
Hearts and flowers --
Washington, Lincoln, and Presidents' Day --
Mardi Gras and carnival / Samuel Kinser --St. Patrick's Day / Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair --
Passover in America / Erika Meitner --
Easter / Bruce T. Morrill --
VE and VJ Day / J. Stanley Lemons --
Earth Day / J. Brooks Flippen --
Arbor Day / Shaul Cohen --
May Day in Urban America / Donna T. Haverty-Stacke --
Cinco de Mayo and 16th of September / Louis M. Holscher --
Mother's Day / Kathleen W. Jones --
Father's Day --
Memorial Day / Matthew Dennis --
A holiday for a flag --
Emancipation and African American slave festivals / Mitch Kachun --
Powwow / William K. Powers --
Gay Pride Day / Timothy Stewart-Winter --
v. 2. Independence Day / Matthew Dennis --
"Agitate, educate, organize": Labor Day in America / Ellen M. Litwicki --
American Indian Day / Nicolas G. Rosenthal --
Columbus Day: the navigation of unchartered waters / Claudia L. Bushman --
Halloween / Jack Santino --
Election Day --
Pope's Day/Guy Fawkes Day / Brendan McConville --
Veterans Day / G. Kurt Piehler --
Thanksgiving / James W. Baker --
Hanukkah in America / Dianne Ashton --
Forefathers Day / James W. Baker --
Christmas / Penne Restad --
Kwanzaa / Keith A. Mayes --
From New York's Eve to First Night.
责任: edited by Len Travers.
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A chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, focusing on each holiday's cultural and political significance. It includes major, minor, and bygone holidays,  再读一些...

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"[T]his is a well-researched and interesting compilation that will be of interest for all age levels and groups." -

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