The history of paper 05:54. More and more of us may read their newspaper online. But many kinds of paper are “on a roll.” Martha Teichner this morning offers us a crash course on paper.

There will likely come a day, sometime in the not-too-distant future, when we look back on wrapping paper with the kind of retrospective condescension we reserve for the most naive elements of our ...

Journalist Nicholas Basbanes talked about his book, [On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History]. In his book he discusses the origin of paper in China, and explores how papermaking ...

History of Wrapping Paper Karal Ann Marling, author of Merry Christmas: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, explains the history behind wrapping paper, ...

The paper bag’s association with skin color is an ugly part of its history but for many others the lowly bag was a symbol of freedom — from staying home to feed the kids, from gender norms ...

We send emails instead of hand-written letters, we buy Kindles instead of books, we use iPads instead of pen and paper—and yet, voting is still mostly left to good old-fashioned paper. Voting ...

Article two entitled, “Life & Death of Mother Mead” is a history of Mead Paper from 1890 until its merger with Westvaco in 2002. Article three chronicles the 1975 union strike at the ...

A Living History of The Humble Paper Airplane. For centuries, paper airplanes have unlocked the science of flight—now they could inspire drone technology.

The question began her research. She looked through picture books and literature. And read that the first black paper doll was created in 1863, the year of the Emancipation Proclamation.