Thanksgiving : the biography of an American holiday
(2009)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
394.2649/BAKER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : Published by University Press of New England, [2009]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781584658016 (pbk. : alk. paper), 1584658010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
A thanksgiving detective story -- New England's Puritan holy days -- The traditional New England Thanksgiving -- The classic New England Thanksgiving dinner -- The nation embraces Thanksgiving, 1780-1880 -- Nineteenth-century holiday imagery in literature and art -- Enter the Pilgrims -- Pilgrims are for kids : Thanksgiving in the progressive classroom -- Imaging the holiday -- Parades, patriotism, and consumption -- Consensus and competition : the postwar Thanksgiving -- New myths for old-- Thanksgiving under siege -- Thanksgiving now, then, and forever