General Holiday Sites

• The History of the Holidays
  Overviews of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas and other holidays from the History Channel.

• Holidays on the Net
  Click Choose a Holiday Celebration to learn more about most major holidays, including Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah.

• The Holiday Spot
  Covers many holidays throughout the year, including Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah.

 
Christmas

• The Food Timeline: Christmas Foods
  Origins and recipes for sugarplums, wassail and other traditional foodss.
  

• Merry Christmas.com
  Features recipes, movies and a kid zone.

• A Victorian Christmas
  Christmas holidays in the Victorian period.

Hanukkah

• Chanuka.com
  History, songs, dreidels, menorahs, e-cards, recipes and more.

• Chanukah at Aish.com
  What's behind the Jewish Festival of Lights, as well as Hnukkah stories s from around the world.

• Hanukka? Chanukah? Hanaka?
  Why there are so many different spellings of Hanukkah

Kwanzaa

• Kwanzaa Information Center
  Background information, events calendar, books, discussion and celebration guide.

• Official Kwanzaa Web Site
  Detailed description of Kwanzaa and its principles from its creator.
  

New Year's Day

• Auld Lang Syne
  The meaning and story of this traditional New Year's tune.

• New Year Traditions
  How people around the world ring in in the New Year

• New Year's Eve
  History and news about New Year's Eve in New York City's Times  Square