Writings Essays, reportage and two collections, oldest to newest.
Letter
Beethoven’s letter to the woman history still cannot name.
July 1812Subscribers
Manuscript
Ada Lovelace and the machine she imagined before the world was ready to build it.
1843Subscribers
Letter
Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 1844 — the letter in which he first confided the theory that would upend the natural sciences.
1844Subscribers
Speech
Two minutes at a battlefield dedication that November, and a new birth of freedom promised in return.
1863Subscribers
Notebook
The words that traveled down a wire—and changed how the world communicated.
March 10, 1876Subscribers
Letter
Gandhi, Tolstoy, and a correspondence that crossed continents.
1909–1910Subscribers
Letter
A physicist’s warning delivered to the White House in August 1939, and the letter that helped set the atomic age in motion.
1939Subscribers
Letter
She was eleven years old. She wrote to a presidential candidate with a suggestion. Abraham Lincoln listened.
October 1860Subscribers
A trilogy in three letters
Letters That Changed the World Three letters, three centuries. A wife asks to be heard, a brother is kept going, a friend stands beside a scientist under siege. Each was written to one person, and each still speaks to everyone.
Part I of III · The plea
Abigail Adams, John Adams, and a plea for a more just future.
March 1776Subscribers
Part II of III · The lifeline
Vincent van Gogh and the brother who never stopped believing in him.
1881Subscribers
Part III of III · The defence
Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and a private letter of friendship in the middle of a public storm.
November 1911Subscribers
Document
Abolition of Slavery (1865)
1865Subscribers