When I opened it, to my amazement it was a note written in pencil, in old French.” What the restorer found in the antique chair was a letter — a 200-year-old love letter.

In the 21st century we are stuck with PFAS and PFOS that don’t break down and are contaminating our drinking water. The situation with carbon dioxide is similar, although it took longer to ...

No Way says we must keep the tracks in place so when the funding finally arrives we can put in a train. Isn’t it likely that once the funding arrives technology will have made train tracks ...

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.

In 19th century England, women often had fewer legal protections than animals, even in cases involving murder. Yale Law Library/Flickr Creative Commons Satire has long been used to expose human ...

Going viral—and aggregating popular content—isn’t an invention of the Internet Age. In the 19th century, newspaper and magazine journalists didn’t consider swiping a story or a poem from ...

Advice books in the 19th century had awfully long titles. Take, for example, the subject of this article, The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence. Containing a ...

To the editor — A recent writer waxed nostalgic about his ancestors coming to America at the end of the 19th century and becoming successful farmers ("Immigrants pulled themselves up from the ...

Object Details Author Chartier, Roger 1945- Boureau, Alain Dauphin, Cécile Notes Translation of 3 chapters from: La correspondance: les usages de la lettre au XIXe siècle, 1991. Contents The ...

Black Sheep Burgers & Shakes in Springfield, Missouri, offers people free meals on Christmas. One elderly woman dined there and left staff a heartfelt note.

With its iconic fin de siècle designs (characteristic of the end of the 19th-century lethargy) and its showcasing of women writers, the Yellow Book gave its name to the decade.