Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral refo

In attempting to steer young adults safely away from the dangers of market-driven society, reformers in early America created values that came to define the eme

In Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal mig

How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were su