Christmas is America's No. 1 favorite holiday—85% of us celebrate it. Here's how Christmas started and why we have the ...

In many countries, Easter is still the day of days. But in America, we're all about Christmas -- divested, mostly, of its religious trappings.

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter solstice.

Germanic tribes honoured the pagan god, Oden ... Cromwell in England sought to curb decadence by banning Christmas. The popular holiday made a comeback with the return of Charles II to the ...

Variations on What Child Is This In his follow-up to the 2012 ARC release Keyboard Christmas, and his fifteenth recording as a leader, Michael Pagán presents a program of holiday themed tracks ranging ...

On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan ... Christmas-time phenomenon involves a popular holiday ...

Brian O’Donovan’s A Celtic Sojourn has entertained and enlightened radio audiences since 1986. For the last 15 years, the Christmas-time live version of the show has drawn on Celtic, Pagan, and ...