Now that the former paper mill site is on the verge of a new use with the City of Sartell, we look back at how the once-thriving mill got to this point, from disaster to rebirth. A paper mill in ...

This is the fifth and final article on papermaking in the Scioto Valley of Ross County, Ohio. In the previous four articles I have written about the first recorded history of papermaking in Scioto ...

The history of paper, much like the history of humanity itself that it would go on to chronicle, was an evolutionary process. Writing systems evolved first on clay tablets before ancient Egyptians ...

Kurlansky (Salt: A World History) yet again tackles world history via another object often taken for granted in modern society. In straightforward, no-nonsense prose, he traces the narrative of ...