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Title: America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920
Author : Ellen M. Litwicki
Release Date : January 17, 2003
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,History,United States,
Pages : * pages
Size : 9879 KB

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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.