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The North-American Calendar
Author: The North-American's Calendar and Gentlemen and Ladies Diary, Being an Almanack for the Year of the Christian Aera 1773
Author: Samuel StearnsThe Universal Calendar, and the North-American's Almanack, for the Year of the Creation, According to Sacred Writ, 5750; and of the Christian Aera, 1788
Author: Samuel StearnsPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Calendars of Native Americans
Author: Lynn GeorgePublisher: Rosen Classroom
ISBN: 9780823989188
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Describes the history of the use of calendars in North America, from ancient medicine wheels and pictograph timelines to modern Native American calendars.
Red, White, and Blue Letter Days
Author: Matthew DennisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472688
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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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.
United States Almanac, Or, The North-American Calendar
Author: The North-American Calendar, Or the Columbian Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1816
Author: The North-American Calendar, Or The Columbian Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1818. ...
Author: Robert PorterPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The North American Calendar, Or, The Columbian Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1826 ...
Author: The North-American Calendar, Or The Columbian Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1819 ...
Author: Robert PorterPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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