CHRISTMAS IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND 1620-1820: PURITANISM, POPULAR CULTURE, AND THE PRINTED WORD.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1997. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 79-164. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 106, Part I. Nissenbaum's essay traces how Puritans tried to keep Christmas out of New England and how the holiday still managed to return. Christmas entered first into the margins of New England culture, and then, by the latter half of the eighteenth-century, into its very mainstream. The struggle over this holiday was waged..... READ MORE about CHRISTMAS IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND 1620-1820: PURITANISM, POPULAR CULTURE, AND THE PRINTED WORD
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