New Year's celebrations in China are thousands of years old, but across the Pacific, the holiday took on a life of its own.

Presidents have been pardoning turkeys every Thanksgiving for decades, but how did this tradition get started?

We all watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, but the ball has its own history that began well before Times Square and out on the high seas.

In 1951, PM Ben-Gurion chose a menorah—suggested by the Jewish Museum—as a birthday gift for U.S. President Harry S. Truman.