Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division: Chronological catalog
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division: Author
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Collector
Author: Portland Transcript
Author: Yesterday and Today
Author: Chicago and North Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
American Farmers' Magazine
Author: Red, White, and Blue Letter Days
Author: Matthew DennisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparently trivial observances mirror American political and cultural life. Both reveal much about the material conditions of the United States and its citizens' identities, historical consciousness, and political attitudes. Lying dormant within these festivals is the potential for political consequence, controversy, even transformation. American political fetes remain works in progress, as Americans use historical celebrations as occasions to reinvent themselves and their nation, often with surprising results. In six engaging chapters 'assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. Matthew Dennis explores this vast political and cultural terrain, charting how Americans defined their identities through celebration. Independence Day invited African Americans to demand the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence, for example, just as Columbus Day—celebrating the Italian, Catholic explorer—helped immigrants proclaim their legitimacy as Americans. Native Americans too could use public holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, to express dissent or demonstrate their claims to citizenship. Merchants and advertisers colonized the American calendar, moving in to sell their products by linking them, often tenuously, with holiday occasions or casting consumption as a patriotic act.
Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties, Indiana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benton County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Who's who in Pennsylvania
Author: History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York
Author: James Hadden SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chenango County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description