Many of America's biggest cities are also amazing holiday destinations in their own right. These ten American cities have the most festive downtown areas for any Christmas trip. \nChristmas Lights.

Every year around July 25, there are celebrations and sales to mark Half Christmas or Christmas in July. But how did that ...

Typically, Christmas lovers can check it out free of cost from Black Friday through New Year’s Eve, but in 2023, Gilfillen, the 85-year-old man known to locals as “Mr. Christmas,” is taking ...

For the record, according to history.com, the first records of Christmas trees being cut for display in America come from 1820s in another German community, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

America in the beginning was a bit of a Scrooge when it came to Christmas. It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the nation fully embraced the holiday as a cherished family tradition.

The first day of Hanukkah and Christmas have only coincided a handful of times since 1900, according to the Jewish Federations of North America. The holidays started on the same day in 1910, 1921 ...

Many Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs and other non-Christian South Asian Americans say they get wrapped up in the Christmas spirit, finding ways to fold in their own cultural traditions.

Home Culture & Life Features When Americans banned Christmas The first 'War on Christmas' was declared almost 400 years ago, courtesy of our Puritan forefathers ...

A Christmas Carol is broken up into five different sections, or “staves”: Stave I introduces us to Scrooge and Marley’s ghost; Staves II, III and IV take Scrooge through time with the Ghosts ...

At the Westmoreland County celebration, international students and AFS volunteers gathered to share Christmas and New Year’s traditions, eat cookies from different countries and enjoy time ...

Attractions at its An Old Time Christmas celebration include a living nativity scene, an interactive children's show featuring a 12-foot singing Christmas tree, a meet-and-greet with Rudolph ...