When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.

Today, Gen Z can just glance at an app to see their balance in real time. Financial apps track spending, categorize purchases ...

My 92-year-old mom's politically engaged, widely read, a clothes horse and a quick draw with a cocktail shaker. Here's how ...

Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

"Prose to the People," edited by Katie Mitchell, chronicles the legacy of past and present Black bookstore's throughout the ...

The Guinness Book of World Records credits Col. Ernest Loftus, a deceased man from Zimbabwe, with the longest streak of daily ...

Wrong Organ's Johanna Kasurinen tells us about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future.

In the car home, the oldies radio station plays “The Weight,” by the Band, which prompts Addie’s memory of her brother, Len, ...

In a May 2000 essay for Essence magazine, Octavia Butler wrote that “to try to foretell the future without studying history ...

Lillian Keith Lewis was born on January 11, 1931, to J.C. and Fannie Mae (Rivers) Keith in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Growing up ...

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...