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Author: Daniel Bellware
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692292259
Size: 29.48 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Holidays
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description: According to the Veteran's Administration, at least 25 cities across America claim to have originated the Memorial Day holiday. As a result, numerous historians feel that the true history may never be known. This book rejects that claim and explores the factual history of the holiday and shows that most of the better-known stories are mere myths. Years of painstaking research reveal a story that was well known for decades but lost in a proliferation of local legends in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Author: Richard Gardiner
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105824373
Size: 65.31 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1851096825
Size: 79.42 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2777
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Book Description: This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.

Author: Sam Haselby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190266503
Size: 65.25 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Book Description: Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic faced vital challenges, including a vast and unique continental colonization project undertaken without, in the centuries-old European senses of the terms, either "a church" or "a state." Amid this crisis, two distinct Protestant movements arose: a popular and rambunctious frontier revivalism; and a nationalist, corporate missionary movement dominated by Northeastern elites. The former heralded the birth of popular American Protestantism, while the latter marked the advent of systematic Protestant missionary activity in the West. The explosive economic and territorial growth in the early American republic, and the complexity of its political life, gave both movements opportunities for innovation and influence. This book explores the competition between them in relation to major contemporary developments-political democratization, large-scale immigration and unruly migration, fears of political disintegration, the rise of American capitalism and American slavery, and the need to nationalize the frontier. Haselby traces these developments from before the American Revolution to the rise of Andrew Jackson. His approach illuminates important changes in American history, including the decline of religious distinctions and the rise of racial ones, how and why "Indian removal" happened when it did, and with Andrew Jackson, the appearance of the first full-blown expression of American religious nationalism.

Author: Deborah Williams
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581579195
Size: 68.76 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description: The Erie Canal: Great Destinations is the first comprehensive travel guide to New York State Canals and the communities and attractions found along them. Each chapter covers one canal, providing historical background as well as information on wineries, canal museums, restaurants, lodging, canal cruises and bike paths in all the major cities, many of the small towns and villages, and the two biggest Finger Lakes. The guide offers separate sections on Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Utica, and Rochester and their outlying areas, as well as a chapter on Niagara Falls. With coverage of three smaller canals in the region (the Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca) this is undoubtedly the most extensive guide to the canalways of the state.

Author: Hennig Cohen
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Size: 19.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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Book Description: Covers more than 125 holidays including well-known religious and secular holidays as well as more obscure celebrations. Chronologically arranged, from New Year's Day through Christmas, entries include a description of origins, historical background and general characteristics.

Author: Rowland A. Sherrill
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252016936
Size: 72.83 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Book Description:

Author: Jared Meyer
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781404210790
Size: 18.67 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Book Description: Describes the challenges immigrant teens encounter living in a new culture and contains suggestions on how to deal with culture clash.

Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469601419
Size: 13.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Book Description: With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.

Author: Timothy Beal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190207507
Size: 18.47 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Book Description: It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has not played a major role. The roles religion plays, moreover, become more bewilderingly complex and diverse every day. For all those who want--whether out of curiosity, necessity, or civic duty--a vivid picture and fuller understanding of the current reality of religion in America, this Very Short Introduction is the go-to book they need. Timothy Beal describes many aspects of religion in contemporary America that are typically ignored in other books on the subject, including religion in popular culture and counter-cultural groups; the growing phenomenon of "hybrid" religious identities, both individual and collective; the expanding numbers of new religious movements, or NRMs, in America; and interesting examples of "outsider religion," such as Paradise Gardens in Georgia and the People Love People House of God in Ohio. He also offers an engaging overview of the history of religion in America, from Native American traditions to the present day. Beal sees three major forces shaping the present and future of religion in America: first, unprecedented religious diversity, which will continue to grow in the decades to come; second, the information revolution and the emergence of a new network society; and third, the rise of consumer culture. Taken together, these forces offer the potential to create a new American pluralism that would enrich society in unimaginable ways, but they also threaten the great ideal of e pluribus unum. With visual aids that help readers navigate America's diverse religious landscape, this informative, thoughtful, and provocative book is a must-read in the emerging public conversation concerning religion in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.