“It was seen as being seedy, even dangerous and threatening,” says Joe Perry, associate professor of modern European and German history at Georgia State University and author of Christmas in ...

When I tell my friends that in the German style, we don't decorate our Christmas tree until Dec. 24, they pity me a bit. "What's the point?" one of them asked, assuming that this custom indicated ...

Iconic parts of the Christmas season were imported to America by German immigrants and business moguls like F.W. Woolworth. Some of these include tinsel, ornaments, gingerbread houses, nutcrackers ...