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From Kathy Gill, Former About.com Guide to US Politics

Resource of the Day

Wednesday December 7, 2005
An American Christmas: Decade by Decade. This online exhibit from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum traces how the way Americans have celebrated Christmans since 1840 has evolved. The Puritans of Massachusetts banned Christmas observations, enforcing a fine in penalty. The Christmas tree tradition came to the US via German immigrants in the early 1800s, but the celebration of Christmas took hold more strongly in the south than the north. Prior to the Civil War, northerners believed Thanksgiving was the more "appropriate" holiday and "saw sin in the celebration of Christmas." The first three states to legalize the Christmas holiday were southern: Alabama (1836), Arkansas (1838), and Lousiana (1838). (tip)

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