Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Walton's Vermont Register and Farmer's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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.
A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Author: The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Rewriting the History of School Mathematics in North America 1607-1861
Author: Nerida EllertonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400726392
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861. It is the first book on the history of North American mathematics education to be written from that perspective. The principal data source is a set of 207 handwritten cyphering books that have never previously been subjected to careful historical analysis.
Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860
Author: Charles H. KaufmanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838622704
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Employs nearly 4,000 names of music teachers, performers, instrument, makers, and tradesmen who contributed to the musical upbringing of one of our nation's earliest-settled regions. Also includes a study of sacred and secular music, concert life, music education, publications, and the music trades in New Jersey in this period.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: A Checklist of American Imprints for 1838
Author: Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description