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an American calendar
By Matthew Dennis
"Red, white, and blue letter days" was published by Cornell University Press in 2002 - Ithaca, it has 338 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Red, white, and blue letter days” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Red, white, and blue letter days
- Author: Matthew Dennis
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 338
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publish Date: 2002
- Publish Location: Ithaca
“Red, white, and blue letter days” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Historiography - Social aspects of Memory - Holidays - American National characteristics - Memory - History - Politics and government - Nationalism - National characteristics, american - United states, historiography - Fêtes nationales - Histoire - Jours fériés - Mémoire collective - Américains - Historiographie - POLITICAL SCIENCE - History & Theory - Social aspects - Geschichtsschreibung - Feiertag - Gedenken
- Places: United States
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xi, 338 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL3939474M - OL4322569W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 49552445
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2001006501
- ISBN-10: 0801436478
- All ISBNs: 0801436478
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"Red, white, and blue letter days" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Introduction. Identity, history, and the American calendar
- 2- 1. Political fireworks: American Independence Day, 1776-2000
- 3- 2. Haven in a heartless calendar: America's Thanksgiving, 1621-2000
- 4- 3. Reinventing America: Columbus Day and centenary celebrations of his voyage of "discovery," 1792-1992
- 5- 4. Washington, Lincoln, and the unheroic Presidents' Day
- 6- 5. St. Monday: Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the celebration of leisure
- 7- 6. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday: inventing an American tradition
- 8- Epilogue. The future of the past.
"Red, white, and blue letter days" Description:
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"The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'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 celebrations 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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