History of the Holidays

articles are written and curated by

Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood historian.

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Bill Petro earned his Bachelor’s Degree in History at the University of California, Berkeley. He studied Ancient history as well as a comprehensive study of the history of Christian and early Jewish history.

His history thesis was on 19th Century American Evangelicalism. He has done post-graduate work in church history and historical theology, contributing content to several books.

He began writing articles on the History of the Holidays and distributing them by email and the Internet on Usenet in 1985, a decade before the World Wide Web.

A Bibliography of some of the sources appears here.