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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan) Festivals of freedom. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606990936 Online version: Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan) Festivals of freedom. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003 (OCoLC)631542467 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mitchell A Kachun |
| ISBN: | 1558494073 9781558494077 |
| OCLC Number: | 51647832 |
| Description: | xi, 339 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | "A day of publick thanksgiving" : foundations, 1808-1834 -- "A borrowed day of jubilee" : maturation, 1834-1862 -- "An American celebration" : expansion and fragmentation, 1862-1870s -- "Let children's children never forget" : remembrance and amnesia, 1870s-1910s -- "Lessons of emancipation for a new generation" : reorientation, 1860s-1900s -- "A great occasion for display" : contestation in Washington, D.C., 1860s-1900s -- "The faith that the dark past has taught us" : dissolution, 1900-1920. |
| Responsibility: | Mitch Kachun. |
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