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| Author | : Robert J. Myers |
| Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.
| Author | : Barbara Klebanow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Audiobooks |
| ISBN | : 9780866470186 |
The workbook is an English vocabulary development text focusing on words associated with traditions, customs, and background of holidays celebrated in the United States, and in some cases also in Canada and elsewhere. The special vocabulary is presented in seventeen readings, written in repetitive style so the student can learn the definitions of each word through the context. Each describes an American holiday, with key vocabulary in boldface type. The first section of each reading explains the traditions and customs of the holiday; the second explores its historical and cultural background. Five or six exercises, progressing from easy to more difficult and requiring exploration of forms and meanings of the key words, follow each reading selection. The holidays include: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday; Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day; St. Patrick's Day; Mother's Day; Memorial Day; Father's Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Columbus Day; Halloween; Veterans Day; Election Day; Thanksgiving; Christmas; and birthday. Suggested teaching techniques, an answer key, and a key word index are appended. (MSE)
| Author | : Maymie Richardson Krythe |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
How more than 50 of our holidays originated and are observed today.
| Author | : Lerner Publishing Group |
| Publisher | : LernerClassroom |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0822547805 |
This early reader series introduces children to different holidays celebrated in America. Through engaging text and captivating photographs and drawings, children will learn how these holidays originated, the many different customs for celebrating these holidays, and how they have changed over the years.
| Author | : As Retold Within The Pages Of St. Nicholas Magazine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 103 |
| Release | : 2008-08-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781435731400 |
Our American Holidays: Their Meaning and Spirit was originally published in 1906, and is at once a heartwarming reminiscence on the Victorian Era in America and a reminder of the inspiration and delight our most beloved Traditional holidays - Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, Easter, Halloween - as well as the national identity and pride our uniquely American holidays - Independence Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington - can still hold for us today. Compiled from the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine, a popular turn of the Century publication for youth ages five to eighteen, Our American Holidays: Their Meaning and Spirit is an ideal resource for reclaiming the original, uncommercialized significance and character of every American holiday for ourselves, and for sharing that vision, inspiration and delight with the children we love.
| Author | : Jack Santino |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780252065163 |
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 |
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 | : Anthony F. Aveni |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2004-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780195171549 |
Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.
| Author | : Bruce David Forbes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2015-10-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520284712 |
"America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came to be what they are today, combinations of seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals the often surprising history behind the traditions of each holiday. The book offers a comprehensive look at the Christian origins of these holidays and also touches on Passover, the religions of ancient Rome, Celtic practices, Mexico's Day of the Dead, and American civil religion. America's Favorite Holidays answers our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the many ways in which religion and culture mix"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Abigail Betances |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 15 |
| Release | : 2008-07-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1448845548 |
Nearly every month of the year brings something to celebrate. Readers learn about the various American Holidays that we celebrate throughout the year. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
