Throughout history, the simple act of putting pen to paper has sparked revolutions, ended wars, and reshaped entire civilizations. While today we fire off emails and text messages without much thought ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Elaine Kahaner’s June 15 letter, “Remember who the real enemy in Gaza is,” ...

When I finished grad school in the early ’80s, I studied primary source documents to discover what our Founding Fathers and others in early American history actually wrote, believed or did. Thus, I ...