This article first appeared in Stars and Stripes, May 9, 2014. It is republished unedited in its original form. In his spare Washington apartment, author and popular historian Andrew Carroll stood ...

Letters were how people processed the world before text messages and emails condensed our thoughts into brief communication bursts. They served as conduits for love, revolution, persuasion, and ...

There’s power in remembering the past. That’s why families, schools, colleges, and friends hold reunions teeming with more old stories than there are mosquitoes on a hot Iowa evening. Those stories ...

A few years ago, an auction house in Boston, Massachusetts, sold a two-page letter written from Newark that was dated March 1834. The letter included a hand-drawn map of the downtown area. It is ...