Christmas Goes Indoors
Historian Stephen Nissenbaum describes the birth of Santa Claus, and explains how the celebration of Christmas went indoors in the first half of the 19th century.
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Excerpted from: Naughty & Nice: A History of The Holiday Season
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[...] Christmas Goes Indoors Stephen Nissenbaum describes the birth of Santa Clause and Christmas in the early 19th Century [...]
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