What homeowner would think that a letter addressed only to “purchaser” would serve as the launch point for a full‑blown ...

The letter was discovered in a Mississippi home. — -- A rare letter from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is for sale for $325,000 after a Mississippi family found the letter in a box of ...

A new era is born.

Editor’s note: My father passed along a four-page letter written by my grandfather, Charlie Nintzel, in November 1918, recounting his military experience in WWI. In honor of Veterans Day, I share it ...

A soldier in 1917 writes about watching young men marching with guns. Another in 1918 shares that he is writing by the light of a candle made with bacon grease. That year another man talks about being ...