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Authors: Bruce David Forbes
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-27 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally dominant holidays--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--came
The Children's Ghost Story in America
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Authors: Sean Ferrier-Watson
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is
America's Favorite Holidays
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-30 - Publisher: iUniverse

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Many of America's favorite holidays, including Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Valentines Day, originated far beyond our shores and long before our Founding F
American Folklore
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Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 art
The Mythology of America's Seasonal Holidays
Language: en
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Every year we celebrate a cycle of seasonal holidays. The ancient Greeks called this cycle “The Dance of the Horae,” after the mythical divinities who repre