How much do you know about the keeping of Christmas in colonial times? Do you know when Christmas became an official national Holiday in the United States? 

Here on Founded, we love Christmas and on today’s special edition of Founded we’re finding out about Christmas in the colonies. From the Puritans banning the holiday, to the movement for Christmas reform and how different our modern day Christmas is. There’s a whole lot to unpack and a lot of it is quite surprising.

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