Forefathers' Day, 269th Anniversary
Author | : Middlebury Historical Society (Middlebury, Vt.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Middlebury (Vt.) |
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Author | : Middlebury Historical Society (Middlebury, Vt.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Middlebury (Vt.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Middlebury Historical Society (Middlebury, Vt.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Middlebury (Vt.) |
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Author | : New York Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : New Hampshire State Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Charlotte Reeve Conover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Biographies of Colonel Robert Patterson (1753-1827) and Colonel John Johnston (1775-1861), the paternal and maternal ancestors of John Henry Patterson (b.1844). Robert Patterson, of Scotch-Irish lineage, was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and served in the Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Lindsey in 1780, and they later moved to Dayton, Ohio. Jefferson Patterson (1801-1863), a son of Robert and Elizabeth, in 1833 married Julia Johnston, a daughter of Col. John Johnston, whose lineage was also Scotch-Irish. Jefferson and Julia were the parents of John Henry Patterson (b.1844). Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere.
Author | : Matthew Dennis |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501723707 |
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.
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
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Author | : John D. Seelye |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807824153 |
Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place_the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower. In Memory's Nation, however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims' arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific causes and ideologies. Drawing on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations, he shows how Plymouth Rock changed in meaning over the years, beginning as a symbol of freedom evoked in patriotic sermons at the start of the Revolution and eventually becoming an icon of exclusion during the 1920s.
Author | : New York Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
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Author | : Stephen G. Christianson |
Publisher | : H. W. Wilson |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
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The American Book of Days features 850 essays marking important anniversaries and the birthdays of history-making Americans throughout the 366 days of the year. All American holidays and pivotal moments are noted as readers can delve into fascinating and often overlooked accounts connected to otherwise familiar facts of American history. Cross-references and an extensive index make information easy to find, while expanded appendices feature historical documents.