Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s note: The following editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897. It was an ...

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible ...

The first American-made Christmas cards appeared in Boston. A German-American lithographer Louis Prang, published $6 reproductions (a princely sum at the time) of famous works of art (chromos) since ...

The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897: We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the ...

Editor’s note: The following editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897. It was an immediate sensation and became one of the most famous editorials ever ...

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 ...

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, ...