Presidents Day, celebrated annually on the third Monday of February, is a widely recognized federal holiday in the United ...

For many, Memorial Day means a cookout, a day at the beach or a surefire three-day weekend. It's widely considered the unofficial start of summer in the U.S. But the federal holiday is a day of ...

Memorial Day, one of the United States' first federal holidays in several months, is almost here. For many, it marks the unofficial start of summer as pools and outdoor activities open up, even though ...

Christmas is one of the most celebrated occasions worldwide, and also has a long-running, complex history. What is Christmas?

Now that it's June, Father's Day is right around the corner! Although the holiday honoring fathers is often viewed as the counterpart to Mother's Day, the two have very different histories. Father's ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

This is the third and infal article in a three-part series on the history of holiday music. The first article described the origins of holiday music and the second covered the 19th-century reinvention ...

Christmas jammies are definitely a thing. They might be seen as a little silly, maybe even a little odd, but they’ve become a heartwarming holiday ritual for families across the country. Matching PJs ...

Holidays carry enormous emotional weight. They mark time, culture, and memory, and they often shape how people interpret events far beyond their original meaning. In war, they can create rare moments ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, other than saying there were too many like it. Lesser occasions routinely garner ...