The 19th-century church sex scandal that changed our view of privacy Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a ...

When the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher’s seduction of Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton became public knowledge, Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church tried to cover up their pastor’s infidelity through a rigged ...

REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER ON THE WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. March 2, 1874 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 2, 1874, Page 5 Buy Reprints View on ...

Congregational pastor Henry Ward Beecher had been a leading voice for the abolition of slavery, so it was exciting that Rev. Beecher would come to Santa Cruz in 1878. He’d preached against sl… ...

Although the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher called Brooklyn, N.Y., his home, the celebrated 19th century minister, orator and abolitionist made seasonal visits for his health to Twin Mountain Village and ...

By HENRY WARD BEECHER Boston : Ticknor & Fields. pp. 419. THERE is perhaps no man in America more widely known, more deeply loved, and more heartily hated than the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.

Illustration via Wikipedia Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 of this story. Brooklyn was not named the “City of Churches” only because of the many fine church buildings that graced her streets.

Our book critic reviews The Most Famous Man in America, by Debby Applegate. Applegate offers insights about the charismatic Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet ...

On a recent Sunday, the Reverend David Fisher rose to deliver a sermon on “Love Divine.” Draped in a bright purple velvet robe and standing in the sanctuary at Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, he bore ...