University of Cambridge historian Renaud Morieux was poring over materials at the National Archives in Kew when he came across a box holding three piles of sealed letters held together by ribbons. The ...

Letter-writing in the 18th century. I was less quick to understand that letters were not just a source for learning about religion and slavery; rather, letter-writing itself is a practice with a ...

Burns told a Dallas audience in June that his treatment of the American creation story includes obscure characters and ...