aAmericaas Forgotten Holiday details the long and proud history of
May Day and compels us to recall both its contested meanings and
wonder at the forces and motives of those who have obliterated our
memory of it. Haverty-Stacke ties together the study of memory with
that of public space while nimbly navigating the troubled,
sectarian waters of communist and anti-communist history.a
--Daniel J. Walkowitz, New York University
aDonna Haverty-Stackeas Americaas Forgotten Holiday offers a
welcome reminder that not many generations ago, May Day brought
more outbursts of idealism than new home construction, more social
solidarity than consumerism, and the hopes for a democratic future
that we need ever more urgently in the torrents of imperial wars
today.a
--Paul Buhle, Brown University
Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May
Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a
part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May
Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an
annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists
around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May
Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an
American and what America should be as a nation.
Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral
histories, photographs, and rare film footage, Americaas Forgotten
Holiday explains how May Dayas celebrants, through their colorful
parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of
their own radical American identities and publicized alternative
social and political models for the nation.
This fascinating story of MayDay in America reveals how many
contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with
political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history
of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting
Americans.
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