> Christmas returned in the early 18th century in traditional form. Historians have identified a surge of premarital pregnancies in New England around this time

> 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