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• Decoration Day

• Memorial Ceremonies at the Graves of Our Soldiers. Saturday, May 30, 1868 (published 1869), by Frank Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial Ceremonies at the National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Under the Auspicies of the Grand Army of the Republic, May 30, 1868 (Washington: McGill and Witherow, 1868), by Grand Army of the Republic (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial Day (Decoration Day): Its Celebration, Spirit, and Significance As Related in Prose and Verse, With a Non-Sectional Anthology of the Civil War (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1911), ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial Day: G. A. R. Programme for May 29th, 1875, by Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Iowa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of the Grand Army of the Republic, Containing its Principles and Objects; Together with Memorial Day, in the Department of Michigan, May, 1869, List of Officers, etc. (Lansing: W. S. George and Co., 1869), by Grand Army of the Republic Department of Michigan, ed. by I. M. Cravath (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial Day Exercises, Mount Hope Cemetery, Sunday, May 30, 1920, by Confederate Veteran Camp of New York (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Comrades (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1911), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, illust. by Howard E. Smith
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Memorial Day (Decoration Day): Its Celebration, Spirit, and Significance As Related in Prose and Verse, With a Non-Sectional Anthology of the Civil War (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1911), ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Holiday Facts and Fancies: Full Yet Simple Explanations of the American Holidays (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1910), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a Child's Birthday (New York: Duffield and Co., 1913), by Marguerite Merington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Holiday Selections for Readings and Recitations, Specially Adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., c1920), ed. by Sara Sigourney Rice
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Masque of Days (from the Last Essays of Elia; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1901), by Charles Lamb, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethel Morton's Holidays (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., c1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Holiday Stories for Young People (New York: The Christian Herald, c1896), ed. by Margaret E. Sangster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Report on the Expediency of Celebrating in Future the Landing of the Pilgrims, on the Twentyfirst day of December, Instead of the Twentysecond Day of That Month (Boston: Printed by vote of the Society, 1850), by Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Frontier Holiday: Being a Collection of Writings by Minnesota Pioneers Who Recorded Their Divers Ways of Observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's (St. Paul: North Central Pub. Co., 1948), ed. by Glenn Hanson (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Arbor Day Leaves (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1893), by Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• True Christmas Spirit (c1955), by Edward J. Sutfin (HTML at EWTN)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (c1955), by Elsa Chaney (HTML at EWTN)
• Our Christmas Symbols (Raleigh, NC: Graphic Press, c1953), by Aylene E. Cooke and Cameron Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Christmas: Sun, Saviour and Santa Claus (Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Press, 1941), by Thornwell Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Christmas Book: Origin of the Christmas Tree, the Mistletoe, the Yule Log and St. Nicholas (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1898), by Carla Wenckebach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas Entertainments (originally published in 1740 as "Round About Our Coal Fire"; reprinted London: Field and Tuer, et al., ca. 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (London: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Clement A. Miles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Friendship and Happiness (Hodder and Stoughton edition; usually titled "The Feast of St. Friend"), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Christmas Dispute Revived, in a Letter From Mr. William Smith, of Norwalk, Conncticut, to Elder Elias Lee, of Ballston, State of New-York, Now Published With a Reply by Mr. Lee (Ballston, NY: Printed by W. Child for E. Lee, 1800), by William Smith and Elias Lee (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Little Book for Christmas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by George Harley McKnight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• Le Feste di San Giovanni in Firenze: Breve Notizia (in Italian; Florence: A. Ciardi, 1887), by Aurelio Gotti
  • page images in Italy
  • page images at HathiTrust

• May Day, 1934 (New York: Communist Party, New York District, 1934), by Melech Epstein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Progress and Nostalgia: Silvesterklausen in Urnäsch, Switzerland (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1985), by Regina Bendix (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• St. Patrick's Day: Its Celebration in New York and Other American Places, 1737-1845; How the Anniversary Was Observed by Representative Irish Organizations, and the Toasts Proposed (New York: The author, 1902), by John D. Crimmins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• School Amusements: or, How to Make the School Interesting, by N. W. Taylor Root (page images at MOA)

• Light Opera Production, for School and Community (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1929), by Gwynne Burrows (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pedantius, by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML with commentary at the Philological Museum)

• Little Known Facts About Thanksgiving and Lincoln's Proclamation (Fort Wayne, IN: Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., ca. 1939), by Louis Austin Warren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proclamations for Thanksgiving, Issued by the Continental Congress, Pres't Washington, by the National and State Governments on the Peace of 1815, and by the Governors of New York Since the Introduction of the Custom; With Those of the Governors of the Several States in 1858 (Albany, NY: Munsell and Rowland, 1858), ed. by Franklin B. Hough (page images at Ohio Memory)

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