Over time, Christmas trees evolved from simple evergreen boughs and wooden pyramids decorated with pine branches to live evergreen trees and, by the 19th century, artificial trees. Long before ...

KSNF/KODE — Each year, you decorate a gorgeous evergreen with lights, Christmas ornaments, ribbon, tinsel, and other items that bring on the holiday spirit. But have you ever stopped to wonder why you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to the staggering tree in St George’s Hall, a 16-foot-high Christmas tree was decorated in the Crimson Drawing Room, ...

London’s Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square was lit up Thursday as part of a British tradition with roots in the Norwegian forest. The tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an ...

POTTSVILLE — In 1861, the year the Civil War started, Mary Mateer became the first United States postmistress in St. Clair. In 1923, Anne Werner became the first woman elected to the St. Clair borough ...

When this year’s Christmas tree arrived at the White House just before Thanksgiving by horse-drawn wagon, the conveyance brought more than an evergreen: It also carried more than a century of history.

For all the wrapping paper, lights, and gingerbread cookies, Christmas has been around far longer than toy catalogs and peppermint mochas. Its history involves unexpected inventions and bits of trivia ...

MANITOWOC, Wis. (WBAY) - A special event at the Manitowoc Public Library celebrates the holiday season and provides a closer look at the history of a very unique kind of Christmas tree. “Sparkle! The ...

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the ...

Pre-Christian Claims Some sources claim the Christmas tree has its origins in pre-Christian traditions and generally offer a few winter solstice celebrations that share things with modern Christmas.