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America’s Christmas wars: Americans have vied over Christmas for centuries
- helsinkiandrew 5y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20211222053932/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/12/18/americas-christmas-wars https://web.archive.org/web/20211222053932/https://www.econo...
- helsinkiandrew 5y ago> Christmas returned in the early 18th century in traditional form. Historians have identified a surge of premarital pregnancies in New England around this time, and a “bulge” in births in September and October—nine months after the revels. I love history like this: finding information hidden in data rather than from written manuscripts and artifacts