For those of us who teach pre-modern English history and literature, there’s a conversation that happens nearly every semester. When […]
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For those of us who teach pre-modern English history and literature, there’s a conversation that happens nearly every semester. When […]
We teach our children about the birds and the bees, but for some, this talk is as foreign as the […]
In the 1960s conservative Christian leaders like Billy James Hargis and his “Christian Crusade” defined the culture wars over sex […]
To write about mid-twentieth century adoption practices in the United States is to position oneself at the heart of dozens […]
In 1995, I was sixteen and experiencing the excitement of my first real love. As if out of a 1990s […]
In 1696, in Somerset county in southwest England, a schoolboy named John Cannon and his friends took their lunchtime break […]
A sex education video plays to a class of middle school students. “As puberty begins, hormones are released and the […]
One of the best and most unexpected perks of researching the history of sex education in South Africa is receiving […]
One of the things I always warn people about before their first archival trip is just how boring historical research […]
In American media and pop culture, there is a constant barrage of fear and panic about teens, especially girls, and […]