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A Historian’s Defense of “Happy Holidays”

December 8, 2012 by InThePastLane 4 Comments

[NB: a version of this op-ed ran in the NY Daily News and Worcester Telegram in 2011] Here we go again. If it's December  then it’s officially the beginning of that annual ritual established a few years ago — the month-long explosion of outrage on talk radio and cable TV over an alleged “War … [Read more...]

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