Christmas carols are among the oldest songs people still sing, according to Dr. Keely Rhodes, an assistant professor of music at USC Aiken. Rhodes presented “Music and Merriment: Origins of the ...

(WHTM) – Christmas brings Santa, cookies, decorations/lights, gifts, time with family, and Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols originated in 129 AD with “Angels Hymn,” according to Classic FM. Classic ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and mild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

Charles Dickens created quite a stir in 1843 with his story, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ about wealth and poverty in industrial England. The author’s message still resonates nearly 170 years later, as the ...