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 ...

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 ...

Petunia Pretty Paws and Geronimo come across a great white whale that needs their help.

Introduction. Identity, history, and the American calendar -- 1.

Explains the history and traditions that are a part of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.

By contrast, this book, which has become a classic, investigates them as epistemological phenomena in their own right.

Cultural and historical background and traditions of forty-five major American holidays, both secular and religious, Christian and Jewish.

Which, of course, they will--won't they? One thing's for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day.

Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States.

Luther and Nora Frank decide to skip Christmas this year and go on a cruise when suddenly everything gets chaotic.