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In the holiday spirit, Ben and Aaron decided it would be fun to explore the history of Christmas, how materialism and big business have infiltrated the holidays, and what we can do to make the holiday season more meaningful both for ourselves and for others. 

Sources

Pew Research Center: Celebrating Christmas and the Holidays, Then and Now

Pew Research Center: 5 Facts About Christmas in America

History Channel: The History of Christmas

Museum Center: 5 Ways Christmas Has Changed In America

JSTOR Daily: How Victorians’ Fear of Starvation Created Our Christmas Lore

JSTOR Daily: Shakespeare, Rembrandt, and the Real “Twelfth Night” 

CBS: The unexpected origins of popular Christmas traditions

Live Science: The Surprising Truth - Christians Once Banned Christmas

The Christian Science Monitor: Christmas - How did gift-giving and caroling get started?

The Conversation: Has consumerism taken over Christmas? 

The Columbia Chronicle: Christmas and Consumerism Cannot Go Hand-In-Hand

Skyword: How Holiday Marketing Built the Holidays - The Story of Our Commercial Christmas

Daily Mail: Why we can’t help overspending over Christmas - Psychologist reveals the three tricks shops use to nudge us to buy

Investopedia: Average Cost of American Holiday Spending