Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic ...

Tulasi Acharya’s book discusses how sexual desire and patriarchy shape South Asian society, drawing from history, religion, and literature.

In his magisterial two-volume Political Order books, Francis Fukuyama writes extensively about patronage networks, ...

While bag charms are trending again after their rise and fall in the early 2000s, they have a much more extensive history, ...

This truly is the fully-realized vision he hinted at so long ago.

An updated version of Shakespeare's famous tragedy set in an imagined near future Dr Islam Issa recaps events in the 1600s that influenced the character of Othello A whistle-stop tour through Ancient ...

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...

Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

Curiously, Joy was a major sponsor for soap operas like “Search for Tomorrow.” If you’ve ever watched a soap opera, you know ...