Christmas Eve is full of rituals and symbolism, vivid practices, all of which are connected to the family cult and the cult ...

Americans are used to picturing Christmas as snow-dusted scenes with stockings full of gifts, but that image barely hints at what the season looks like beyond U.S. borders. Outside the country, ...

It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.” This is not a new complaint. History shows that Christmas traditions are just as subject to change as any other aspect of ...

Decorating trees, baking cookies, wearing ugly sweaters — we all know the American hallmarks of the holiday season. If you observe Christmas, it’s likely you even have some cozy family traditions of ...

Christmas customs in small town U.S.A. have not really changed all that much in the last 30 years or so. The customs that we hold near and dear are much the same. Each small community keeps the ...

'Twas the night before Christmas. Or maybe it was 19 days before. Or 12 days after. All the stockings — or shoes — were hung by the chimney — or left on the stoop — with care. In hopes that Saint ...

Christmas starts with the story of a child born in a manger a long time ago. The holiday still looms large in the minds of children around the world more than 2,000 years after the birth of Jesus. Web ...

Americans are ‘over’ Christmas traditions — with a third wanting to swap traditional turkey for a juicy burger. A poll, of 2,000 adults who celebrate the festive period, found 31 percent are bored ...

For my new Christmas PBS television special, filmed last December, my crew and I joined Brits drinking spiced wassail, Norwegian kids winning marzipan pigs, Parisians slurping oysters and the Swiss ...