Celebrating the constitution: the Federal Processions of 1788 and the emergence of a Republican festive culture in the United States / Jürgen Heideking
The nation as a spectacle: the Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788 / Dietmar Schloss
Revolutionary festivals and political violence: the impact of the French Revolution in America / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
From celebrating victory to celebrating the nation: the War of 1812 and American national identity / Michael Wala
Performing freedom: Negro election celebrations as political and intellectual resistance in New England, 1740-1850 / Geneviève Fabre
Italian Americans and Columbus Day: a quest for consensus between national and group identities, 1840-1910 / Bénédicte Deschamps
"...To divide their love": celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909 / Annick Foucrier
Charity on parade: Chicago's Jews and the construction of ethnic and civic "Gemeinschaft" in the 1860's / Tobias Brinkmann
Demonstrating the values of 'gemüthlichkeit' and 'cultur': the festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910 / Heike Bungert
Halloween
a "reinvented" holiday: celebrating white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle-class America / Adrien Lherm
Climate, identity, and winter carnivals in North America / Bernard Mergen
Creating and instrumentalizing nationalism: the celebration of national reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898 / Fabian Hilfrich
Historical bonding with and expiring heritage: revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary festivities of 1920-21 / Udo Hebel.