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

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

Here are five more ways that humans have scuppered the love lives of animals.

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s. Today, ...

It is more important now to be in love than to be in power. It is more important to bring E. O. Wilson’s biophilia into our ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...