Author: Monroe Dodd
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books
ISBN: 0971292078
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Christmastime in Kansas City
Author: Monroe Dodd
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books
ISBN: 0971292078
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books
ISBN: 0971292078
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Keeping Christmas
Author: James A. Hopwood
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153269539X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year--or at least we want it to be. Too often our celebration of Jesus' birthday is overwhelmed by bright lights and tinsel, overspending and overeating, plus constant chatter about a "war on Christmas." Can't we do better than this? There are two Christmases. One is sacred. One is secular. The two have clashed in one "culture war" or another for 1,700 years. Christmas is not (as some falsely claim) a pagan holiday, but pagan-influenced traditions are part of the seasonal clutter. Keeping Christmas is about helping you find joy in a season of excess and strife. Part survival guide, part history, part cultural commentary, and all laced with spiritual reflection, this book is about how you can celebrate in ways that are most meaningful to you and your family. It's not easy to thread your way through the Christmas maze. But if Ebenezer Scrooge could learn to keep Christmas well, so can you. Maybe it's time to reinvent Christmas. Maybe we can get it right this time.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153269539X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year--or at least we want it to be. Too often our celebration of Jesus' birthday is overwhelmed by bright lights and tinsel, overspending and overeating, plus constant chatter about a "war on Christmas." Can't we do better than this? There are two Christmases. One is sacred. One is secular. The two have clashed in one "culture war" or another for 1,700 years. Christmas is not (as some falsely claim) a pagan holiday, but pagan-influenced traditions are part of the seasonal clutter. Keeping Christmas is about helping you find joy in a season of excess and strife. Part survival guide, part history, part cultural commentary, and all laced with spiritual reflection, this book is about how you can celebrate in ways that are most meaningful to you and your family. It's not easy to thread your way through the Christmas maze. But if Ebenezer Scrooge could learn to keep Christmas well, so can you. Maybe it's time to reinvent Christmas. Maybe we can get it right this time.
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
Author: Robert E. May
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
Modern Hospital
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Katy Employes' Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
M.K. and T. Employes' Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly
Author: Kansas City Public Library (Kansas City, Mo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Nell Hill's Christmas At Home
Author: Mary Carol Garrity
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740725395
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
From the author of "Nell Hill's Style at Home" comes unconventional wisdom for beautifying a home throughout the holiday season.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740725395
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
From the author of "Nell Hill's Style at Home" comes unconventional wisdom for beautifying a home throughout the holiday season.
Strikes and Racketeering in the Kansas City Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extortion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Extortion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Christmastime in Montana
Author: Dave Walter
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780917298998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rich with Montana holiday memories, Christmastime in Montana is a beautiful collection of reminiscences, newspaper accounts and editorials, poems, menus, and images that brings alive close to two hundred years of Montana Christmas history and tradition.
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780917298998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rich with Montana holiday memories, Christmastime in Montana is a beautiful collection of reminiscences, newspaper accounts and editorials, poems, menus, and images that brings alive close to two hundred years of Montana Christmas history and tradition.