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When temperatures drop, the culture wars heat up. For many, Christmas isn’t just a time to count blessings with friends and family, don loud sweaters and pound eggnog — it’s a season so vital that ...

When the Christmas Toy Land opened in the J.W. Knapp Co. department store, there were toys to delight every boy and girl. In 1912, the department store's Doll Land had 5,000 brand new dolls, including ...

Oh ho ho. Welcome to the financial district in San Francisco. And what may go down in shopping history is the first yuppie Christmas young urban professionals. Yuppies go to places like this. It's ...

You might think “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ fable of redemption, is just a part the holiday. But in fact, it pretty much started the whole thing. This weekend, KPCC’s Off-Ramp program, ...

In the Christmas season many people think of the famous Christmas truce that in 1914 briefly interrupted Western Europe’s slide into industrial-scale slaughter. However, every day that followed right ...

As the car rolls along the winding country roads, snow falls heavily on the warehouses of the Glenfiddich distillery in Speyside. Three casks stand empty, in line, inside the brand's most famous ...

When the great library of Alexandria burned in 48 BC, much of the knowledge of the ancient world was lost. But we have the Internet now, where everything lasts forever, and thanks to the collective ...

Maybe it’s because I’m a pastor and my social media is flooded with churchy headlines and hashtags, but I’ve grown weary of the Christmas tradition of bemoaning the commercialization of the season and ...

With Christmas just a few days away, From the Archives goes back to Christmas Eve 1958 with this outstanding picture of a holiday party for a baby gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan at the San Diego ...

This week, approximately nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas, in a wide variety of ways. Among Christians, the two groups who share the most in their approach to Christmas celebrations are ...