In 1843, the company that is now Merriam-Webster bought the rights to the 1841 copy of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics ... a Taylor Swift song.

An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, LL.D., New York 1828. The National Quilt Collection incorporates quilts from various ethnic groups and social classes, for quilts are ...

On loan from the library of Karolyne and Bryan A. Garner, Dallas, Texas. Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language. New York, 1828. In addition to law dictionaries, lawyers and ...

In 1960, Tamla Records and Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., were incorporated as Motown Record Corp. The Montreal Canadiens won their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup, defeating the Toronto ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...