• When Christmas Went Viral

  • Dec 12 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
  • Podcast

When Christmas Went Viral

  • Summary

  • Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, the book's tale of miserly Scrooge and the ghosts that transformed him transformed the holiday too, especially in the U.S.

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