Author: New York Columbian Celebration (1892).
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Category : Columbus Day
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Official Souvenir Programme of the New York Columbian Celebration October 8th to 15th
Author: New York Columbian Celebration (1892).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbus Day
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbus Day
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Red, White, and Blue Letter Days
Author: Matthew Dennis
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Columbus
Author: Anne Paolucci
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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America Discovers Columbus
Author: Claudia L. Bushman
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"A lively look at how each generation of Americans has reinvented Columbus in its own image and for its own purposes. Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain, discoverer or destroyer? ... By focusing on popular representation of the explorer and his story through the years, rather than the actual man or deeds, Bushman chronicles the invention of Columbian tradition. In doing so, she provides a historical and cultural context for the quincentennial debate over Columbus's legacy, demonstrating that the current questioning is only the latest in a long tradition of revising the explorer's reputation."--From publisher.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"A lively look at how each generation of Americans has reinvented Columbus in its own image and for its own purposes. Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain, discoverer or destroyer? ... By focusing on popular representation of the explorer and his story through the years, rather than the actual man or deeds, Bushman chronicles the invention of Columbian tradition. In doing so, she provides a historical and cultural context for the quincentennial debate over Columbus's legacy, demonstrating that the current questioning is only the latest in a long tradition of revising the explorer's reputation."--From publisher.
Catalogue of the J. Morgan Slade Library and Other Architectural Works in the Apprentices' Library
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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World Report
Author:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days
Author: Len Travers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313331329
Category : Holidays
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Every holiday has a history, and this set sets out to describe them all. A chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, past, present, and emergent, it focuses on each holiday's cultural and political significance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313331329
Category : Holidays
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Every holiday has a history, and this set sets out to describe them all. A chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, past, present, and emergent, it focuses on each holiday's cultural and political significance.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Annotated Bibliography World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Author: G. L. Dybwad
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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