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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

Public Festivities in Early America

FAIN: FB-12892-76

Douglas Greenberg
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)

To study early American festivals, days of fast and thanksgiving, and the change the festivities went through over time, the cause of the change and how it reflect the transformation of the premodern settlers to the modern revolutionaries.