Epistolary history is full of open letters, those that are written with the intent that they’ll be read by a wide audience.

There is something about a forbidden love letter that no other form of writing can quite match. The urgency, the secrecy, the ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. “My dear Mr. Meeropol,” the correspondence begins. “Your letter is completely unanswerable because it drags up ...

That sentiment from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is as pertinent today as it was when he penned it 61 years ago. While many advances toward racial equity have been ...

The University of Alabama has made available a digitized version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." The 21-page letter, which was addressed to a group of Alabama ...

It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy critics ...