Chocolate Easter bunnies are a sweet example of European tradition re-imagined by American ingenuity and capitalist creativity. Credit first-generation German-American Robert Lincoln Strohecker, known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chocolate Easter bunnies and candy eggs on wood table in front of wicker basket - Rimma_bondarenko/Getty Images Let's face it: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hop on over for a quick history lesson. The history of the Easter bunny has almost nothing to do with Easter beyond marketing.

Although the Easter holiday signifies the end of the Lenten season and the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, the spring celebration is so much more than that for young kids. It's a day full of ...

Long before chocolate eggs appeared in supermarket aisles, causing sugar spikes and tummy aches, spring festivals across Europe were already packed with symbols of fertility and renewal. Two of the ...

The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

Easter is late this year, and you have a bit more time than usual to ponder the upcoming holiday. As you count down the days to April 20, you might start to wonder about the origins of the Easter ...

Millions of colorful eggs will be hidden and found this Sunday. Easter may be a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified by the Romans on Good Friday ...

Easter brings together an unlikely cadre of traditions: church, bunnies and eggs. What may seem like an odd trio, however, is actually tied together by the universal themes of spring and life renewed.

We've got Saint Nicholas to thank for Christmas's Santa Claus, Venus for Valentine's Day's Cupid and Irish history for Saint Patrick. But who's to credit for the Easter bunny? Why does he hop into the ...

This April 20 is the day that is the Super Bowl of Sundays for one long-eared fellow, the Easter Bunny. Just how did this beloved character come to make this Christian holiday (and even for those who ...