The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York.An instant success, the poem was ...

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Troy, New York is the home of Uncle Sam, an iconic character in American history. The Collar City also helped launch one of the best-known Christmas poems in history, which ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

The poem, of course, was “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (“The Night Before Christmas”). ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a ...

Tim Burton and Disney’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Is Actually Based on This Poem. These two holidays met by mistake, but the inspiration behind this Tim Burton movie is magical.

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

From the Archives: ‘Christmas Poem’ by e. e. cummings In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. December 25, 2018 ...

Now just a looking-back: frost in April’s eye. Highway left behind. Lights stacked ahead. I sip it as I drive on, and in traveling it shifts from ahead to gone in the twitch of a kiss that never ...

The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York. An instant success, ...