Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992"
  • Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism
  • The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905
  • One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24
  • The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41
  • The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92
  • Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century.