printing press

A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.

An excerpt from a new book that explores the threat of made-up monsters in the age of imperial conquest.

The pioneering work of Emma Willard, a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?

Far from being a utilitarian afterthought, an astonishing number of design choices go into pagination.

The cheap monthly publications that flooded rural homes offered more than just advertising—they also provided companionship.

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

To inform its readers of a cholera epidemic, The New York Tribune published an ancestor to our current infographics.

Character codes have been evolving through multiple systems over multiple centuries, this is the story.