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Author | : Boardman W. Kathan |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Our national holidays have been trivialized by merchandising, consumerism, and long weekends. What do you know about the origins of the national holidays of the United States? Boardman Kathan presents the persons and events that each of our “holy days” commemorates. In so doing he explores the shaping of American history and identity, revealing often-misunderstood parts of our national story from a new approach. Each chapter looks at the many books and research written about the events commemorated by these holidays, showing their relevance for today. Kathan includes discussion of the spiritual or religious dimensions of these national observances, pointing out that although the United States was not founded as a “Christian nation” on biblical principles, people throughout American history have perceived a divine guidance—or what George Washington called “providential care.” This book reflects back on the original meaning of these days and seeks to inspire renewed forms of celebration, commemoration, and observance. Celebrating patriotic holidays can bring us together as a people, especially in times of stress and conflict. Schools, religious institutions, patriotic organizations, readers interested in history, in short the general public, will find this an enjoyable aid for recalling our history, reclaiming our values and traditions, and restoring a sense of community.
Author | : Boardman W. Kathan |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 153261456X |
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In times of stress and conflict the celebration of patriotic holidays can bring us together. These ten chapters examine the traditional national holidays of the United States of America--plus Flag Day and Constitution Day--by presenting the persons and events they commemorate, which have shaped American history and identity. In addition, Lincoln's birthday--never proclaimed a national holiday--is considered in an appendix. This book restores the original meaning of these celebrations and looks closely at their development in American history, seeking to inspire renewed ways of celebration, commemoration, and observance. It is an aid for recalling our history, reclaiming our values and traditions, and restoring a sense of community. Each chapter looks at the many books and research written about the events commemorated by these holidays, showing their relevance for today, and their spiritual or religious dimensions. Although the United States of America was not founded as a "Christian nation" on biblical principles, people throughout American history have perceived divine guidance--or what George Washington called "Providential interposition." This book is for the general public, members of patriotic organizations and associations, and as a resource book for schools and religious institutions.
Author | : Robert J. Myers |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Celebrations; the Complete Book of American Holidays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.
Author | : Boardman W. Kathan |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download American Holy Days, Second Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Our national holidays have been trivialized by merchandising, consumerism, and long weekends. What do you know about the origins of the national holidays of the United States? Boardman Kathan presents the persons and events that each of our “holy days” commemorates. In so doing he explores the shaping of American history and identity, revealing often-misunderstood parts of our national story from a new approach. Each chapter looks at the many books and research written about the events commemorated by these holidays, showing their relevance for today. Kathan includes discussion of the spiritual or religious dimensions of these national observances, pointing out that although the United States was not founded as a “Christian nation” on biblical principles, people throughout American history have perceived a divine guidance—or what George Washington called “providential care.” This book reflects back on the original meaning of these days and seeks to inspire renewed forms of celebration, commemoration, and observance. Celebrating patriotic holidays can bring us together as a people, especially in times of stress and conflict. Schools, religious institutions, patriotic organizations, readers interested in history, in short the general public, will find this an enjoyable aid for recalling our history, reclaiming our values and traditions, and restoring a sense of community.
Author | : Alexis McCrossen |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501728687 |
Download Holy Day, Holiday Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The mass protests that greeted attempts to open the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on a Sunday seem almost comical today in an era of seven-day convenience and twenty-four-hour shopping. But the issue of the meaning of Sunday is one that has historically given rise to a wide range of strong emotions and pitted a surprising variety of social, religious, and class interests against one another. Whether observed as a day for rest, or time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week.Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the day in the United States since 1800. She investigates cultural phenomena such as blue laws and the Sunday newspaper, alongside representations of Sunday in the popular arts. Holy Day, Holiday attends to the history of religion, as well as the histories of labor, leisure, and domesticity.
Author | : Barbara Klebanow |
Publisher | : PLA |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780866471961 |
Download American Holidays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
July 4th, Election Day, Christmas, and New Year's Eve: reading about our American national holidays is not only fun, it is a way of exploring our diverse culture and values. How do we celebrate Memorial Day? What is the history of Thanksgiving? What does "Be my valentine" mean?Special features: 4 appendices of typical holiday gifts, traditional holiday songs, readings for the holidays, a listing of other holidays in the US, the official national holiday of each country in the world.
Author | : Jack Santino |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252065163 |
Download All Around the Year Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.
Author | : Leigh Eric Schmidt |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691017211 |
Download Consumer Rites Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites" that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality.
Author | : Reginald Welbury Jeffery |
Publisher | : London : Methuen |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America, 1497-1763 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ellen M. Litwicki |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1588344169 |
Download America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the revered Memorial Day to the forgotten Lasties Day, America's Public Holidays is a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the civic culture of America has been fashioned. By analyzing how holidays became a forum for expressing patriotism, how public tradition has been invented, and how the definition of America itself was changed, Ellen Litwicki tells the intriguing story of the elite effort to create new holidays and the variety of responses from ordinary Americans.