tradition

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.

The Czech composer came to New York with the conviction that African-American melodies would be the ‘seedbed’ for their nation’s 20th-century music.

The polarizing dessert that people love to hate became a Christmas mainstay thanks, in part, to the U.S. Postal Service.

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.

Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.

The NFL holiday tradition took off in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the unbeaten Chicago Bears in a game broadcast nationally on radio.

For most people, birthdays were once just another day. Industrialization changed that.

It's a tale thousands of years in the making.

Carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and wearing scary costumes are some of the time-honored traditions of Halloween. But why do we do them?

An architectural historian invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.

I had sung the Black National Anthem countless times, but hearing those words reverberate around me in this place, on this day, moved me in a new way.

Can a cross-border effort to bring wild bison to the Great Plains restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems?

In the 19th century, Purim became an occasion to hold parties to raise money for charities. These parties helped American Jews gain a standing among the elite.

Mexican-American workers have a long tradition of radical organizing, stretching back to the days of the IWW and the mid-century Communist Party.

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.

It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials.

On Oct. 21, 1980, a beloved tradition was put to a stop.

The study of circuit riding helps to highlight the importance of the lower federal courts in American legal history.

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

"Moonshine" is now a big thing in the liquor biz. But it takes a visit to West Virginia to get a sense of the complex stories in every barrel.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.

The origins of the praline candy can be traced back to enslaved black women in Louisiana.

A tradition as American as apple pie, and older than the Constitution.

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.

At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?