基本説明
This chronologically organized reference guide to the history of American celebratory days, past, present, and emergent will also focus on each holidays' cultural and political significance.
Full Description
Did you know that the Puritans did not celebrate Christmas? That trick or treating on Halloween began in the late 1930s? That Kwanzaa was created in the mid-sixties by Ron Karenga, a radical Black Nationalist and Black Panther? That Anne Marie Jarvis, the force behind getting Mother's Day, proclaimed a national holiday, later repudiated the holiday for its crass commercialism and strove to undo her handiwork until the day she died? 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, the books focuse on each holiday's cultural and political significance. It includes major, minor, and bygone holidays, both civic and religious. The work has a distinctive multi-cultural tone, with special emphasis on recent additions to the national holiday pantheon, such as Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, Gay Pride and Passover, among others, in addition to the more traditional Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Veterans Day. New holidays, like The Superbowl and Mardi Gras, are included as well. Each entry tracks the changes in the celebration of the day, its origins, and its wider cultural significance.
Presented chronologically, a range of holidays are examined. Some were once widely observed but have faded over time, some are currently widely accepted and celebrated, and some are emerging and gaining in popularity. Covered holidays include:
Every entry is signed, and concludes with suggested further readings. Sidebars offer brief overviews of many holidays, such as Presidents' Day, whose history is relatively straightforward. The Introduction provides an overview of the history of holidays in America, their uses and controversies. Illustrations, a robust bibliography, and a comprehensive index complete the work.
Contents
Introduction
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday by Claybrooke Carson
Holidays for Heroes of the Lost Cause: Lee, Jackson, and Davis by Karen L. Cox
Super Bowl Sunday: An American Holiday? by Mark S. Dyreson and Peter Hopsicker
Mardi Gras and Carnival by Samuel Kinser
St. Patrick's Day by Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair
Passover in America by Erika Meitner
Easter by Bruce T. Morrill
VE and VJ Day by J. Stanley Lemons
Earth Day by J. Brooks Flippen
May Day in Urban America by Donna T. Haevrty-Stacke
Cinco de Mayo and 16th of September by Louis M. Holscher
Mother's Day by Kathleen W. Jones
Memorial Day by Matthew Dennis
Powwow by William K. Powers
Gay Pride Day by Timothy Stewart-Winter
Independence Day by Matthew Dennis
"Agitate, Educate, Organize:" Labor Day in America by Ellen M. Litwicki
American Indian Day by Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Arbor Day by Shaul Cohen
Columbus Day: The Navigation of Uncharted Waters by Claudia L. Bushman
Halloween by Jack Santino
Pope's Day/Guy Fawkes' Day by Brendan McConville
Veterans Day by G. Kurt Piehler
Thanksgiving by James W. Baker
Hanukkah in America by Dianne Ashton
Forefathers Day by James W. Baker
Christmas by Penne Restad
Kwanzaa by Keith A. Mayes
Sidebars
Bibliography
