In this day and age, phones have undeniably become the main method of communication. It seems like everyone has a cell phone in their pocket, making them capable of chatting with others over social ...

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 ...

This story previously aired on Dec. 24, 2022. For nearly two decades, an anonymous letter writer terrorized the town of Circleville, Ohio, by sending threatening letters that exposed alleged secrets ...

Among the Great Moments in Literary History I wish I could've witnessed is that day, sometime after May 15, 1886, when Lavinia Dickinson entered the bedroom of her newly deceased older sister and ...

Being a writer in the digital age? James Baldwin 'seemed free in ways we no longer can be' 'Letters from America' (6/6). Writer and journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams envies the great American ...

Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, presents an online exhibition of letters written by Jews during World War II. Many of them didn't realize they would be murdered ...

Sometimes it takes more than a well-placed résumé to find a job. Twitter user @andrechemist recently posted an image of an old C&EN letter to the editor that raises the question: Can a magazine’s ...

The letter included the fourth known example of Einstein writing the "E=mc²" equation by hand. It was originally expected to sell for around $400,000. A letter written by Albert Einstein, in which he ...