Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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While Christmas had been celebrated in the United States since the beginning, it took many decades before it became an official holiday in every state.
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Music used:
"Wish Background" by Kevin MacLeod
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Notes:
- Disputes are shown from America’s perspective in this video for ease of presentation.

Sources:
- Barnett, James Harwood. The American Christmas: A Study in National Culture. United States: Arno Press, 1976. (ONLY AS A LAST RESORT IF I COULDN’T FIND DATES ELSEWHERE)
- Goodbar, Octavia. “Cards.” Current History (1916-1940) 47, no. 3 (1937): 56–58. jstor.org/stable/45338721.
- Restad, Penne L.. Christmas in America: A History. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Spencer, Ivor Debenham. “Christmas, the Upstart.” The New England Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1935): 498–517. doi.org/10.2307/360356.
-Various state and territory constitutions and law codes, accessed in archival form at hathitrust.org .
- supremecourt.gov/pdfs/transcripts/1983/82-1256_10-04-1983.pdf