While many people celebrate Christmas as a Christian holiday centered around ... Told from the perspective of a young child, the 1920 poem “[little tree]” uses E.E. Cummings’s iconic free ...

As far as classic Christmas Eve activities go, nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a ...

The writers in “American Christmas” range from the devoutly Christian—there ... The Robert Frost poem in “American Christmas” is about a Christmas tree, too, but its wearied tone ...

Scholars think Christmas was initially celebrated in December in order to piggyback on pre-Christian festivals ... of the Christmas tree in Britain, but it was Moore’s poem that inspired ...

The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has ... St. Nicholas, an early Christian bishop in what is now Turkey, was ...

A blue “Happy Hanukkah” ornament hangs on a Christmas tree. Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families, the month of December is referred to as a “dilemma.” This time of year brings ...

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?