Today, as the art of handwritten notes gradually fades, one common way to court someone is to slide into his or her DMs. Made of a single, one-foot square of laid paper, the love token was folded so ...

LONDON — The ink has barely faded, and the paper has only slightly yellowed. For nearly 250 years, the letters, more than 100 of them, sat sealed in Britain’s National Archives, unopened and ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther has come a long way since Goethe published it in the late 18th century. It was the novel that turned Goethe into an international celebrity. Napoleon carried a copy with ...