Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

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Whether worn as a lovelock or set in elaborate jewelry, the clipped-off hair of Kings and Queens outlived the monarchs themselves.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

Mother's Day began as one woman's quest to have a public observance of the anniversary of her own mother's passing.

Discover the real men Bruce Holsinger based his characters on.