The Christmas season marks the return of twinkling lights, festive gatherings, gifts, cards, and holiday music. For decades of American history, nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus Christ ...

For the first time in history, a Nativity scene was displayed on the steps ... The display, accompanied by prayer, Christmas carols and a reading of the Christmas story, was made possible by ...

Often these images were lost over time, but Wong’s atmospheric scene paintings ... s favorite Christmas card designer.” Yet this celebration of Wong as “American” obscures the uncertain ...