Christmas always makes me nostalgic. My parents were all about family, and when I was growing up, we'd spend Christmas Eve with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins on my father's side, and ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in ... tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put one up at the White House in 1856, and by the 1870s ...