Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their

An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived toge

With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifica

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

The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issu