Adam Criblez is assistant professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University.
Criblez's Parading Patriotism is a revealing analysis of how
changing circumstances in terms of growth and population
demographics in the urban Midwest influenced and altered views
about the annual celebration of the nation's founding and
patriotism.
*Middle West Review*
In thoroughly scholarly fashion, this book reflects the excitement
and occasional conflicts and disasters that accompanied
celebrations of Independence Day as the early American Northwestern
frontier became the Middle West.
*Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society*
Parading Patriotism is a well-written study of the oldest of
American patriotic holidays, Independence Day, which has had a
varied history throughout diverse periods and regions.
*The Michigan Historical Review*
In offering this kind of careful and thoughtful history, relating
both change and continuity over time, Criblez is to be
commended.
*The Journal of American History*
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