History of the christmas tree 6 Articles

by Angela Anderson

How did the art of decorating a Christmas tree become an integral part of today's American Christmas celebration? Many historians believe that Germany serves as the birthplace of the Christmas tree. A handful of legends ...read more

by Barbara Watkins

There has been neither an identifiable inventor or any specific town that has been known to be responsible for our great tradition we identify as, (The Christmas Tree.) although it can be traced back to 16th century German...read more

by Andreia Fouto

The origin of the Christmas tree, a pine or fir, decorated and illuminated, especially in the particular houses, at Christmas night, is very previous to the birth of Jesus, retracing to the second or third millennium B.C. ...read more

by Elizabeth Flores

Before Christianity and the birth of Jesus came along, many people in other countries hanged evergreen over their doors and windows because they believed that they would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits and deadly i...read more

by Paul Curtis

A WINTER'S TALE It was in sixteenth century Germany, or so the legend has it, in a town called Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt. That the founder of the protestant church, Martin Luther, was the first to decorate a Christma...read more

by Patsy Warner

In my home there is a living locally grown Christmas tree that will see three years of my life making history. But what is the history of this strange tradition of bringing evergreens into the home? This Christmas day, whi...read more