What would a person in Revolutionary America sound like? Early letters, documents, and diaries help us listen in.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's always been about more than just spelling The British and Americans have never gotten along very well where the English ...

Mr. Mencken has stowed probably 30,000 such odd data in the third of a million words and 700 text pages of his new fourth edition, which is the third so drastically rewritten and enlarged that no more ...

No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

The office of the president offers a lot of responsibilities and privileges. Your actions drive the world's most powerful military, billions of dollars worth of domestic policy and, perhaps most ...