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.

Thomas Jefferson once called the letters of A person “the only full and genuine journal of his life.” By that standard, Princeton University Press’s exhaustive Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the 31st ...

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 ...

Congress will soon decide on how federal healthcare dollars will be spent. President Donald Trump announced his plan “to lower healthcare prices for all Americans and truly make healthcare affordable ...

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 ...