Investigating the lost literary history of Iceland reveals religious upheavals and clever forgeries, new research has ...
Read these 12 magical art books—from Banksy to Tamara de Lempicka to a deep dive into papyrus smuggling—over the holiday ...
Back when "The 12 Days of Christmas" were more formally observed, today would be the third day.
In our house the Christmas music is still a collection of CDs, kept in a big covered basket that comes up from the basement ...
In the late Middle Ages, Christianity was widespread in Europe and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in ...
There's nothing more relaxing than sitting by the fireplace in your pajamas on Christmas Eve, sipping hot chocolate and ...
The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...
While Christmas carols are sung in church, this hasn t always been the case The new book Deck the Hall by composer Andrew ...
On Christmas morning, I knew my prayers had been answered even before I ripped the paper off; I’d memorized the exact weight ...
Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...
Juicy slices of roast beef. A plump turkey glistening in the candlelight. Plum pudding. It is the archetypal Dickensian ...
Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.