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Gentle warning: This is a big story about a big nation. My beloved editor, Scott, suggests it can be read as a story and/or used as a living-history resource. Americans are doers. In the United States today, history is an action word. This is, after...

In the San Francisco Bay Area — a prime spot for the forces disrupting established publishing industries — there is a long-held, enduring passion for an opposing direction: painstakingly printing and binding books by hand. Photography and essay by DOUGLAS...

Various beautiful printed pieces by Melbourne letterpress printers, The Hungry Workshop.  Photo - Sean Fennessy. Jenna Hipgrave of The Hungry Workshop inspects her work.  Photo - Sean Fennessy. Jenna Hipgrave of The...

The Declaration of Independence in its popular calligraphic form, with signatures. When many people think of the United States Declaration of Independence, they picture the elaborate calligraphy “fairly engrossed on parchment” by Timothy Matlack with...

Good Saturday morning! Jake is filing from Stamford, Connecticut, where we’re hoping the rain holds off today. Daniel and Anna are in Washington. Donald Trump lost the Wisconsin primary a few months ago. Paul Ryan has been elected for nearly two decades...