Today, Christmas Eve, we continue our tradition of republishing a 19th century New York editorial writer’s passionate defense of Santa Claus. The journalist Francis P. Church, a native of Rochester, ...

(WSYR-TV) — Robert Thompson remembers as a kid seeing Coca-Cola ads with the iconic rosy-cheeked, red/white-suited Santa Claus designed by Scandinavian artist Haddon Sundblom. Thompson, now a pop ...

It’s almost Christmas. “Peace on Earth” and “good will toward men” being in short supply these days, we look to the past for a bit of wonder and inspiration. As is our annual custom, today we reprint ...

Editor’s note: Virginia O’Hanlon, 8, sent a letter to the New York Sun. “Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says ‘If you see it in the Sun, ...

It is our pleasure to once again share this holiday tradition with our readers. On Sept. 21, 1897, the New York Sun published what has become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. The letter was ...