Sarah M. S. Pearsall is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and previously taught early American and Atlantic history at Cambridge University, where she was a fellow of Robinson College. Her work on marriages and families has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy.
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Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. However, polygamy has come to symbolize a problematic, even 'barbaric,' form of marriag... SEE MORE