Author: Henry Augustine SmithPublisher:
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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A Pageant of the Stars and Stripes
Author: Henry Augustine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Pageant of the Stars and Stripes
Author: Henry Augustine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Stars and Stripes
Author: Willard Fleming DillmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Under the Stars and Stripes
Author: Elizabeth Berkeley GrimballPublisher:
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Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Flag
Author: Marc LeepsonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429906472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Flag: An American Biography is a vivid narrative that uncovers little-known facts and sheds new light on the more than 200-year history of the American flag. The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating look at the history of the American flag from its beginnings to today. Journalist and historian Marc Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Flag sifts through the historical evidence to--among many other things--uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the Stars and Stripes. It details the many colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the flag. "Flag," as the novelist Nelson DeMille says in his preface, "is not a book with an agenda or a subjective point of view. It is an objective history of the American flag, well researched, well presented, easy to read and understand, and very informative and entertaining." "Our love for the flag may be incomprehensible to others, but at least we now have a comprehensive guide to its unfolding."--The Wall Street Journal
A Pageant of Portsmouth
Author: Teaching
Author: The Torch and Other Patriotic Pageants of Today
Author: Josephine ThorpPublisher:
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Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Pageants and Processions
Author: Herman du ToitPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443815071
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these “beauty pageants” are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious, or civic events and their protagonists, as subjects. Pageants were historically characterized by resplendent costuming and elaborate processions that were often given to much pomp and ceremony. Pageantry has formed an important part of the civic life of most societies, both ancient and modern, serving a variety of cultural and political purposes. The use of drama and public spectacle as an instrument of civic, social, and religious activism has recently become the focus of renewed academic inquiry. The essays in this interdisciplinary anthology provide carefully researched insights into the phenomenon of pageantry over the centuries and across broad cultural boundaries.
Bulletin [1908-23]
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Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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