New piece on Santa Claus and 1776!

Hey everyone, the semester has made it tough for me to keep up with blogging on the site, and I owe everyone a post about all the events I have scheduled in 2023. But to whet your appetite in the meantime, here’s a piece I wrote that the great folks at Age of Revolutions have posted, just in time for the holidays: “Mythmaking in Manhattan: Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.” Not suitable for children under 10!

Some quotes that others have pulled from the piece:

"Santa Claus was born as the fiftieth anniversary of 1776 approached, and we can learn from the entwined myths that arose in New York City at this moment.”

“We should take a closer look at the patrician writers who formulated such an untroubled story of the Revolution, because they included the same men who crafted another myth: the existence of Santa Claus.”