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Thanksgiving The Biography of an American Holiday

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ISBN-10: 1584658010

ISBN-13: 9781584658016

Edition: 2009

Authors: James W. Baker, Peter J. Gomes

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 10/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Foreword
Thanksgiving in America
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Appendixes
A Thanksgiving Poem
Some Early Thanksgiving Recipes
United American Indians of New England Press Release
Notes
Bibliography
Index