Author: Grace Taber Hallock
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Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: American Child Health Association
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: American Child Health Association
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what America should be as a nation. Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare film footage, America’s Forgotten Holiday explains how May Days celebrants, through their colorful parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of their own radical American identities and publicized alternative social and political models for the nation. This fascinating story of May Day in America reveals how many contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting Americans.

Author: Ida M. Lynn
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Author: Mary Burnham
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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A world list of books in the English language.

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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Author: Allison Thompson
Publisher: McFarland
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Starting in the early 1830s, American girls and women began to hold Old English May Day festivals, complete with maypole dances, the crowning of a May Queen, and romantic plays and pageants. These festivals accelerated in popularity after 1900 at colleges and universities across the country. An important part of the traditional college experience for many women, the celebrations played a surprisingly influential role in the Progressive reform movement. This thorough history examines the creation and development of the traditional American May Day festival. It also provides an overview of May Day celebrations at 80 specific college and universities, eight of which continue to celebrate the festival annually.