Learn how you can easily make butter the old-fashioned way: hand-churning cream.

Join Dr. Andrea Myers Achi, Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art in The Met’s Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, for a virtual tour of Africa & Byzantium.

Hold on to your socks with this homemade old-school eggnog recipe from Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate. There’s a good story to go with it, too.

Can you imagine a world without pineapple upside-down cake? Neither can we! And this recipe is by far the greatest of all time.

Why did the English choose Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg, Virginia as their early American settlements? Why did King William III and Queen Mary II establish a university here? What was life like for the colonists here? What crazy concoctions are to...

Links between holiday traditions and pagan culture are well established - and occasionally celebrated - but there are also a lot of misconceptions about paganism that make the word itself a bit taboo.

The Celts and pre-Celts celebrated winter solstice and built monuments to mark the day.

A look at Slavic, Baltic, Celtic and Germanic Christmas-time traditions and their similarities and origins, with an especial focus on Yule, as well as the nature of Santa Claus.

Only existent footage of the Titanic.

If you've ever wondered when Christmas carols first came about, the answer lies in the 14th century – although their evolution dates back even further. Even before Christianity, it is thought that midwinter songs existed to keep up people's spirits, along...

If you've ever wondered when Christmas carols first came about, the answer lies in the 14th century – although their evolution dates back even further. Even before Christianity, it is thought that midwinter songs existed to keep up people's spirits, along...

The Radio City Rockettes have been American icons since they formed in 1925. The dance troupe has performed at presidential inaugurations and most famously at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Every holiday season, the Rockettes dance in the Christma...

What did the Pyramids of Egypt look like 4500 years a In this video we take a tour of the Giza Plateau and the Pyramids in a way you've never seen before.

In this video we look at oldest videos ever recorded. With the oldest being in 1874.

Explore the rich history of Alexandria, the major center of Hellenic civilization and the capital of the vast Ptolemaic empire. Discover iconic structures like the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Library,...