Abstract

When the American athletes returned home from the 1912 Stockholm Games, New Yorkers lined the streets from Fifth Avenue and Forty-First Street to the City Hall to honor “the greatest American team that ever left these shores.” By recognizing the “victorious athletes who added greater glory to American prowess,” the parade dramatized many of the key symbolic and ritualistic aspects of American nationalism.

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