Popular myths about the classic holiday tune have circulated for decades, obscuring its origins on the minstrel stage.

Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in ...

which brings us to one of the most famous Christmas songs ever – one that actually started out with palm trees. Irving Berlin's iconic White Christmas was first released in 1942 but he wrote it ...

I’ve experienced all those things these past few weeks while working on this countdown of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, an unabashedly subjective undertaking, from “White Christmas ...

A soldier in the battlefield longing to be home for Christmas inspired the great composer Irving Berlin to write White ...

From “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “A Christmas Story” to “Elf,” there are plenty of holiday movie classics on streaming. Click ...

It’s not the first time the city has gone this long without an inch of snow on Christmas Day. The song “White Christmas” was written during one of those long, snowless Christmas spells.

Regardless, the concept of snow on Christmas represents a sort of romanticized ideal of the holiday — there’s a movie and a song (not to mention all the song’s covers) called “White ...

Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.