John Evelev from MU's English Department shares how his literary research gave him a new appreciation for the holiday.

When we think of Valentine’s Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass ...

Did you know that Americans spend an estimated $20 billion each year on Valentine’s Day This staggering figure highlights not ...

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

A popular Victorian-era Valentine Day’s card. Valentine Card by Jonathan King,1860-1880, London Museum., CC BY When we think ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.

Paul Locher provides a history of how Johnathan “Appleseed” Chapman's orchards became used by Jerome Monroe Smucker to create ...

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds ...

While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers ...

Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds' by Louis Vuitton and its creative director, Francesca Amfitheatrof, is the second in a series ...

So, Victorians looking for love devised a new way to communicate: They said it with flowers. During the reign of Queen ...

Dédé was not an outlier, Quigley adds, but rather "just the very tip of the iceberg" in a community of free people of color ...