Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian ...

The Christmas song, written and composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the mid-18th century, describes Christ, King and Creator ...

What exactly is wassailing — and why does it keep showing up in Christmas songs? From medieval drinking bowls to danceable ...

Birthed as it was on the eve of another revolution, Cappeau and Adam’s song was praised by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine ...

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such organizations as the VFW and the American Legion. That year, and on wartime ...

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

Skylark Artistic Director Matthew Guard and Christine Baranski are interviewed Dec. 1 beside “A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas” by Charles Dickens, Dec. 1843,” at The ...

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