Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days

Author: Len Travers
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0313331308

Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days

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. Download Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 ci Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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