The printed Christmas card dates to the Industrial Revolution. Even at its birth, the greeting card used modernity to evoke ...

Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.” This is not a new complaint. History shows that Christmas traditions are just as subject to change as any other aspect of human societies, and when customs ...

The development, and ultimate triumph, of the Christmas card in Victorian Britain demonstrates how nostalgia was channeled into invention. The Christmas card did not revitalize the traditions of ...

A Christmas card Jeff Anderson sent to his mother 50 years ago is living on year after year. It was 1974. Anderson was 25 ...