Feb 14, 2021
LISTENER WARNING: In frank discussion of real life offends you, perhaps you'll want to skip this one, even though we "bleep".
Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovers out there!
Love is as old as the day is long. It's a many-splendored thing. But was is just as real and complicated and splendored in 19th-Century Victorian America as it is today? You bet it was! They just cloaked it better because they actually learned to write with a command of the English language and understood innuendo.
The History Things Podcast's Matt Borders joins us for another holiday special to talk about how soldiers dealt with love and war.
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