America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920

America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920
ISBN-10
1588344169
ISBN-13
9781588344168
Category
Social Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2013-08-06
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Author
Ellen M. Litwicki

Description

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.

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