How did elves go from supernatural monsters to Santa's helpers? The surprising history of Christmas elves reveals a lot about work, class, and Western culture.

While Santa is indeed an icon of the season, my goal was to capture Santa’s nature from the movie, ELF. This Santa is a grounded, realistic, and more of a beer and pizza kinda Santa. Because the ...

Santa Claus reads letters from children. Photo courtesy of Mary Claus WILKES-BARRE — The holiday season is upon us, and there are so many traditions observed by families that make this time of year ...

Every Christmas season, letters to Santa flood in from kids around the world — but in Santa Claus, Indiana, volunteers become Santa’s elves to ensure every child gets a reply. This small town, ...

Today, Christmas Eve, we continue our tradition of republishing a 19th century New York editorial writer’s passionate defense of Santa Claus. The journalist Francis P. Church, a native of Rochester, ...

In the Finnish city of Rovaniemi, even in summer, you feel like a child just before Christmas. Lights are everywhere, and elves are busy at work. Rovaniemi is home to Santa Claus, whom you can visit ...

The Movie remains one of the worst Christmas films ever, a chaotic, garish holiday disaster worth remembering.

One of this nation’s most enduring Christmas tales is the reply by Francis P. Church, editorial writer for the New York Sun, to a letter from little Virginia O’Hanlon of Manhattan, asking if there was ...

As has become this newspaper’s holiday tradition, today our editorial board once again offers readers a belated gift in the form of what we believe is the best Christmas editorial ever written. It ...

On Sept. 21, 1897, The Sun published what was to become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. It was sent by 8-year-old ...