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America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories

By Bruce David Forbes

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780520960442
DOI
10.1525/9780520960442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4085896 bytes)
Pages
232\230
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:36:34

Description

America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidays—Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving—came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday’s traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Appealing and insightful, America’s Favorite Holidays satisfies our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the fascinating ways in which religion and culture mix.

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