Background
Rockwell was born in Orange, New Jersey on June 10, 1891 to Dickinson Woodruff Richards and Sally Lambert Richards.
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Katharine Rockwell
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She graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1909. Rockwell then completed her bachelor"s degree at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1913 and received induction into Phi Beta Kappa. Studying at Teachers College at Columbia University in Manhattan, Rockwell completed her master"s degree in 1925 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1934.
Rockwell authored an influential study titled How Christmas Came to the Sunday-schools for her Doctor of Philosophy dissertation.
Career
She also chaired the Young Women’s Christian Association"s Department of Religious Education. In 1918, she received a diploma from the Young Women’s Christian Association"s training school in New York City. Rockwell worked as a professor of religion and biblical literature at Smith College.
She served as their director of religious work and social service.
Rockwell also worked as an instructor at Teachers College at Columbia University. Dodd, Mead and Company and Gryphon Books published editions of the book in 1934.
Gryphon Books then published a re-print of the book in 1971. Examining the history of the celebration of Christmas in the United States., many books reference Rockwell"s study, including:
America"s Working Manitoba: Work, Home, and Politics among Blue Collar Property Owners (1985) by David Halle
Keeping Christmas: The Celebration of an American Holiday (1990) by Philip Reed Rulon
The December Wars: Religious Symbols and Ceremonies in the Public Square (1993) by Albert J. Menendez
Christmas in America: A History (1995) by Penne L. Restad
Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays (1997) by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Celebrating the: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Rituals (2000) by Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck
Consumption: Objects, Subjects, and Mediations in Consumption (2001) by Daniel Miller
Material Culture: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (2004) by Victor Buchli
The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children"s Culture (2004) by Gary South. Cross
Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-cultural Study (2009) by Alfred Lewis Shoemaker
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America"s Greatest Holiday (2009) by Karal Ann Marling
The Americans: The Democratic Experience (2010) by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Battle for Christmas (2010) by Stephen Nissenbaum
Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011) by Adam Gopnik
Cities of God (2013) by David Gange and Michael Ledger-Lomas
Katherine Lambert Richards Rockwell married theologian William Walker Rockwell in South Orange, New Jersey on November 8, 1934 after a courtship at Lake Sunapee (New Hampshire).
They had one child, Dorothy, from William"s previous marriage.
William Rockwell worked as a professor and librarian at Union Theological Seminary (now affiliated with Columbia University) in Manhattan. The Burke Theological Library at the seminary houses a special collection of his papers from 1909 to 1952.
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Rockwell served as national secretary for the Young Women’s Christian Association and as a member of their Board of Trustees for two terms.
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