With the Christmas holiday almost here, I’ll be spending some time reviewing the history and folklore surrounding the holiday. I’m starting with Bruce David Forbes’s Christmas: A Candid History and will probably play around on The History Channel’s mini-site dedicated to the holiday before going back through some old notes, hitting a library or two, [...]

A quick round-up of Halloween-related pop-culture worthy of attention …
I recently finished reading Nicholas Rogers’ Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night–a slim, well-written text that still manages to cover a wide range of topics and provide tons of interesting facts and figures. For example, Halloween is actively celebrated by 65% of adults who spend [...]