One day for democracy
Subtitle: Independence Day and the americanization of Iron Range immigrants
By: Mary Lou Nemanic.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780821417300
Subjects: European Americans -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs; European Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota; Fourth of July celebrations -- Minnesota -- History; Immigrants -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs; Miners -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs; Iron ranges -- Minnesota -- History; Minnesota -- Social life and customs; Minnesota -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History; Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History; Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992"; title: Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism; title: The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892/1905; title: One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906/24; title: The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925/41; title: The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941/92; title: Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century.