AMERICA’S PUBLIC HOLIDAYS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　From the revered Memorial Day to the forgotten Lasties Day,
America’s Public Holidays is a timely and thoughtful analysis of
how the civic culture of America has been fashioned. By analyzing
how holidays became a forum for expressing patriotism, how public
tradition has been invented, and how the definition of America
itself was changed, Ellen Litwicki tells the intriguing story of
the elite effort to create new holidays and the variety of
responses from ordinary Americans.

　　Ellen Litwicki is an associate professor of history at the
State University of New York, Fredonia.