Thanksgiving
Subtitle: the biography of an American holiday
By: James W. Baker ; foreword by Peter J. Gomes.
Series: Revisiting New England : the new regionalism
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781584658016
Subjects: Thanksgiving Day -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A thanksgiving detective story; title: New England's Puritan holy days; title: The traditional New England Thanksgiving; title: The classic New England Thanksgiving dinner; title: The nation embraces Thanksgiving, 1780/1880; title: Nineteenth-century holiday imagery in literature and art; title: Enter the Pilgrims; title: Pilgrims are for kids : Thanksgiving in the progressive classroom; title: Imaging the holiday; title: Parades, patriotism, and consumption; title: Consensus and competition : the postwar Thanksgiving; title: New myths for old; Thanksgiving under siege; title: Thanksgiving now, then, and forever.