Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new book, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," sheds light on the Civil War home front and the complex realities of ...

Long Island, N.Y., resident Thomas Dennelly is the Catholic American who wrote to Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1971, asking the famous U.S. senator where he stood on the question of abortion. In Kennedy’s ...

HENRY ADAMS stands so decidedly in the forefront of American historians and autobiographers that it perhaps need be stressed that he stands decidedly first among American letter writers. Moreover, it ...

Soren Kierkegaard, the 19th-century Danish philosopher, was right. Life is best understood backward. I have embraced a nugget of advice from my parents: Life can be summed up into three parts. The ...