(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

Scholars have long relied on correspondence to peer into the minds of America’s presidents. But what if the letters were written by someone else? Ronald Reagan began laying the groundwork for his 1980 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created ...

If you could write a letter to anyone, and ask them anything, who would you write to, and what would you ask? In this, the digital age, it’s become an increasingly rare thing to receive a letter in ...

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 ...

Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in 1989, when Ronald Reagan left a note for George H.W. Bush on stationery with a ...

A letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson that had been lost to historians for over a century has surfaced. The letter, which is priced at $80,000, is up for sale at Ardmore, Pa.-based ...

Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based education ...