When Charity Adams Earley was sent across seas in 1944, she was faced with a monumental task: Get millions of pieces of mail ...

all-female Army postal battalion in World War II. The battalion was tasked with delivering mail to soldiers from their families, an effort that raised the soldiers’ morale. “When you start ...

Twenty years ago, my husband and I moved into the 1929 house where Carl and Vashti Murphy raised their five daughters. It wasn’t long before we discovered several boxes of his letters and other ...

People who are trying to quit smoking frequently use nicotine patches as a commonly sought-after help because they assist in alleviating withdrawal symptoms. Nicotine is delivered into the ...

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. She was previously a senior editor at the Atlantic. A new book examines the evolution of the American workplace, interrogating ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only unit comprised entirely of Black women to have been deployed overseas during World War II, and it had served a critical function ...