United States -- Social life and customs
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United States -- Social life and customs
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United States
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- Folklore in America, tales, songs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, games, folk drama and folk festivals, Selected and edited by Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen from the Journal of American folklore. --
- Is it just me?, [or is it nuts out there?], Whoopi Goldberg
- Halloween nation, behind the scenes of America's fright night, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
- Life during the American Revolution, by Kristen Rajczak
- The everything Christmas book, stories, songs, food, traditions, revelry, and more
- Curious customs, the stories behind almost 296 popular American rituals, Tad Tuleja
- Giving thanks, Thanksgiving recipes and history from Pilgrims to pumpkin pie, Kathleen Curtain, Sandra L. Oliver, and the Plimoth Plantation
- Life in colonial America, by Elizabeth George Speare ; art work by Charles Walker, together with numerous old prints
- Freedom, Sebastian Junger
- Spiders in the hairdo, modern urban legends, collected and retold by David Holt & Bill Mooney
- Freedom, Sebastian Junger
- Real lace, America's Irish rich, Stephen Birmingham
- Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, History Channel, v. 2, Disc 1-3,, Widescreen
- Exploring American girlhood through 50 historic treasures, Ashley E. Remer and Tiffany R. Isselhardt
- American folklore and legend
- The book of new family traditions, how to create great rituals for holidays and every day, Meg Cox ; illustrations by Trina Dalziel
- United States
- The domesticated Americans, by Russell Lynes. --
- Stephen Fry in America, written and presented by Stephen Fry, Disc 1-2,, Widescreen
- A museum of early American tools, by Eric sloane. --
- The way our people lived, an intimate American history, by W.E. Woodward ..
- Writing with scissors, American scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem renaissance, Ellen Gruber Garvey
- Early America at work, a pictorial guide to our vanishing occupations. --
- Three squares, the invention of the American meal, Abigail Carroll
- Myths, legends, and folktales of America, an anthology, David Leeming and Jake Page
- Thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the American experience, by Melanie Kirkpatrick
- America's secret aristocracy, Stephen Birmingham. --
- The good old days, a history of American morals and manners as seen through the Sears, Roebuck catalogs 1905 to the present, by David L. Cohn. With an introduction by Sinclair Lewis
- Gay marriage, why it is good for gays, good for straights, and good for America, Jonathan Rauch
- American afterlife, encounters in the customs of mourning, Kate Sweeney
- Christmas in America, a history, Penne L. Restad
- Thank you, Sarah, the woman who saved Thanksgiving, Laurie Halse Anderson ; [illustrated by] Matt Faulkner
- Our America, a photographic history, Ken Burns, with Susanna Steisel, Brian Lee, and David Blistein
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing, a memoir across three continents, Mary-Alice Daniel
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