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Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen (A Vintage Short)

Stephen Nissenbaum

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Description:From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America's first reported Christmas a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing in the wind. Now-forgotten chronicler Harriet Martineau immortalized what became known as the first American Christmas tree, set up in the house of her friend Charles Follen. But she neglected to explain what brought the two of them together in the first a passion for abolition. Martineau also failed to mention Follen's convoluted path to America, from banished German radical to Harvard professor and U.S. citizen. Stephen Nissenbaum explains all in this amusing and somewhat astonishing expose of the Christmas tree, taken from his definitive and award-winning history of Christmas in America.An eBook short.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen (A Vintage Short). To get started finding Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen (A Vintage Short), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America's first reported Christmas a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing in the wind. Now-forgotten chronicler Harriet Martineau immortalized what became known as the first American Christmas tree, set up in the house of her friend Charles Follen. But she neglected to explain what brought the two of them together in the first a passion for abolition. Martineau also failed to mention Follen's convoluted path to America, from banished German radical to Harvard professor and U.S. citizen. Stephen Nissenbaum explains all in this amusing and somewhat astonishing expose of the Christmas tree, taken from his definitive and award-winning history of Christmas in America.An eBook short.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen (A Vintage Short). To get started finding Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen (A Vintage Short), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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