romance

How Theodore's Roosevelt's personal tragedies inspired him to reform America's cities.

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

Cuddle up with your sweetie for stories about three centuries of pre-marital intimacy, from Puritan "bundling" to the back-seat of the parents' Buick.

Proposal advice from Inez Milholland, originally published in the Chicago Day Book, 1916.

Henry James, spiritualism, and the afterlife.

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.

Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

After "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the nightmare of American familyhood was the only game in town.

Born out of the Great Depression, the genre reminds us that even in hard times there's laughter, love, and light.

After 400 years, reality has begun to replace the lies.

Lacking a sufficient support system, Meriwether Lewis did not have anyone close enough to help him.

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.

The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.

In 1970, Angela Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial — and her eventual victory — proved to everyone that the justice system was corrupt.

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.

In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula in Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.

John Jacob Astor’s "A Journey in Other Worlds" is a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.

When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.

Her private writing offers another, more idiosyncratic angle to understand the famed poet.

Some accounts suggest that the Passover Parade was even more glamorous than its famous counterpart, the Easter Parade.