Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

146. Festivals and the Construction of American Identities

Palmer House, Private Dining Room 17

Chair: Paul Samuel Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Papers: Celebrating Ethnicity: The Festive Culture of German-Americans, 1848–1914
Heike Bungert, University of Cologne

Defining Radical Political Identities in Commemoration: May Day in America, 1890–1909
Donna Truglio Haverty-Stacke, Cornell University

Easter Monday at the National Zoo: The Evolution of an African American Family Tradition, 1891–2000
Jeffrey Hyson, Saint Joseph's University

Comment: Bernard Mergen, George Washington University

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