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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS 

“Brock Chisholm,” The Canadian Encyclopedia,” 30 Mar. 2022, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/brock-chisholm

Griffin, J.d.m. & Nathan Baker. “Brock Chisholm”. 12 December 2007 The Canadian Encyclopedia.ca. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/brock-chisholm

Chisholm, Brock  The Harvard Square Library Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/brock-chisholm-2/

Murray, David “Brock Chisholm, The World Health Organization, and the Cold War (review)” Jan 2009 ResearchGate Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265720818_Brock_Chisholm_the_World_Health_Organization_and_the_Cold_War_review

“Psychiatrist Turns the Cherished Belief in Santa into a “Mental Disorder”. 5 Dec 2022 KTLA.com Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://ktla.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/604485945/psychiatrist-turns-the-cherished-belief-in-santa-into-a-mental-disorder/

Baime, A.J. & Volker Janssen “WWI’s Christmas Truce: When Fighting Paused for the Holiday” Updated 4 October 2022. History.com. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.history.com/news/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accounts

“The Real Story of the Christmas Truce” Imperial War Museum UK. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce

“The Christmas Truce, Winter 1914” The World War.org Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/christmas-truce-winter-1914

Bajekal, Naina “Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914”. 24 Dec 2014 TIME. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/

Walker, Malea  “Good Will Toward Men: The Great War’s Christmas Truce”  22 Dec 2020 Library of Congress Blog. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/12/good-will-toward-men-the-great-wars-christmas-truce/

Koening, Rhoda “Ambrose Bierce, the anti-Santa”  20 Dec 2011 LA TIMES. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2011-dec-20-la-oe-koenig-ambrose-bierce-and-christmas-20111220-story.html

Morris, Jr., Roy “Ambrose Bierce Alone in Bad Company”. The Washington Post Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/bierce.htm

“An Unmerry Christmas by Ambrose Bierce”  Internetpoem.com. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://internetpoem.com/ambrose-bierce/an-unmerry-christmas-poem/

“Oliver Cromwell” Updated 17 Nov 2019  HISTORY.com. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/oliver-cromwell

Castelow, Ellen “Oliver Cromwell”. Historic UK.com. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Oliver-Cromwell/

“Did Oliver Cromwell Really Ban Christmas?”  HistoricEngland.org.UK. Accessed 17 Oct 2023.https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/heritage-highlights/did-oliver-cromwell-really-ban-christmas/

“Why Did Cromwell Abolish Christmas?”  The Cromwell Association. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.olivercromwell.org/faqs4.htm

“Massachusetts Law Banning Chrisrtmas”  16 Dec 2014. Mass.gov. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.mass.gov/news/massachusetts-law-banning-christmas#:~:text=In%201659%2C%20the%20Massachusetts%20Bay,feasting%2C%20or%20any%20other%20way…

Klein, Christopher  “When Massachusetts Banned Christmas”  Updated 28 Sept 2023 HISTORY.com  Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.history.com/news/when-massachusetts-banned-christmas

“When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts”. 25 Dec 2018  Open Culture. Accessed 17 Oct 2023. https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/when-christmas-was-legally-banned-for-22-years-by-the-puritans-in-colonial-massachusetts.html

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