From Chile's disappearances to North Korea's military parades, the warning signs of authoritarianism that we've witnessed ...

Letters like these go beyond the volumes of books examining the battles of war, said Ty Rohrer, supervisor of the Waukegan History Museum. “A history book will tell all the facts,” he said.

February is Black History Month — but it's also a month to celebrate the lost art of letter writing. K. Tempest Bradford examines the overlap, and recommends some good historical letter collections.

Joe Biden on Monday left a personal letter addressed to his successor in the Oval Office, returning the gesture Donald Trump ...

Curator Sahr Conway-Lanz, a manuscript historian, chose letters written by President Woodrow Wilson to the widow Edith Bolling Galt. Wilson had fallen in love with Galt a year after the death of ...

Devin Leonard, author, Neither Rain Nor Snow: A History of the U.S. Postal Service In his 1967 response to a fan letter from a Marine in Vietnam, Louis Armstrong wrote with the same creativity and ...

By that point, however, the mail system was already being used for letters to Santa. On Boxing Day 1874, for example, the New York Times included an item about letters “deposited in the Richmond ...

Letters to the editor about South Dakota history published June 25, 2022 ...

February is Black History Month — but it's also a month to celebrate the lost art of letter writing. K. Tempest Bradford examines the overlap, and recommends some good historical letter collections.

A history of presidential letters to successors, as Trump gets his second. Ronald Reagan scribbled a note in 1989 to his successor above an elephant cartoon.