How much do you know about Christmas?

How much do you know about Christmas—about its origins and its many beloved traditions? Do you know where the idea of stocking-stuffers comes from? Or how lights found their way onto the Christmas tree? Or why we all have the jolly, red-suited, white-haired image of Santa Claus in our heads? In this video, historian William Federer explores the holiday’s rich and unique history. From PragerU: Video Here

Watch the PragerU video The Amazing History of Christmas

American Minute reaches thousands of people, but we could be reaching many more! Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., wrote in “Folly’s Antidote” (New York Times, January 1, 2007): “History is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

There Really is a Santa Claus -History of Saint Nicholas & Christmas Holiday Traditions