Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Christmas Decorating With the Nazis: Literary Tree Ornaments

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The Nazis were nothing if not culturally acquisitive. Although harshly critical of modernist art and literature, they portrayed themselves a...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Christmas Decorating With the Nazis: From the War Diary of a German Girl

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This is a document that my father acquired during his service with the US Occupation Government in Germany after World War II: confiscated, ...

An 18th-Century French Nativity

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Since we've been on the subject of Baroque Christmas art and depictions of the Nativity , I'll share this little piece from my colle...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Merry Christmas, 2016

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Wishing a merry Christmas to all my readers who celebrate the holiday! Here, from a past post, are two images of the Nativity from southwe...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Traditions of Christmas Past: from boisterous to banned to bourgeois

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From the vaults, via last year's Tumblr post : “‘At Home’ in the Nursery, or The Masters and Misses Twoshoes Christmas Party,” ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The (elegant brass) Christmas Box--Anno 1914

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Whenever possible, I like to use images and objects in teaching. They can provide insights into specific aspects of life in the past in th...

Merry Christmas, Amherst! From Rejection to Grudging Acceptance

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On Christmas Day a century before Amherst became a town, Mass Moments tells us: in 1659, a law was passed by the General Court of Massach...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Prosit Neujahr! The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army railroad engineers wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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As I pondered which historical Christmas or New Year's artifact to share this year, I managed to settle on a modest one that addresses b...