I appeared on the Inside the Newport Mansions podcast to talk about Christmas Past :

I spoke to the Associated Press about Santa Claus - available here - which got picked up around the world, including by Time magazine, here...

I'm quoted in this USA Today  article about White Christmases:

I'm in this month's UN Today magazine (the magazine of United Nations civil servants) with an article about Christmas traditions ar...

I've been quoted in The Guardian  in a fun article about contemporary Christmas movies - enjoy here . 

I'm quoted in this month's National Geographic History Magazine in an article about the ongoing significance of A Visit from St. Nic...

I've been quoted in this article from The Economist  about the 200th anniversary of "A Visit from St. Nicholas":

I've guest edited a special Christmas-themed double-issue of Comparative American Studies featuring a host of excellent articles which ...

Sol Eytinge's illustration of the three spirits visiting Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , taken from the 1868 Tickno...

Coming this October from Louisiana State University Press! This is  the first anthology of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's extensive and negle...

Video of our 2022 UEA Christmas lecture for children : A Child's Christmas in Nineteenth Century America:

Well, it's been a decade since I last gave one of the UEA Christmas Lectures for Children, and I'm doing it again! This time, in th...