Stephen Nissenbaum: 2 books
by Stephen Nissenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do....
Behind the Christmas Tree
The Surprising Story of a German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America's first reported Christmas tree: a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing...