White said he researched letters from various sources, and more than 20 were housed in the Library of Congress, while the majority came from the National Archives. “These are letters that Lincoln kept ...

The day we were to start on abortion, I brought in my copy of Ms. magazine bearing a black-and-white photograph of a woman who had bled to death in, yes, a botched back-alley abortion.

Reading the Ms. letters, it occurred to me that what made Ms. unique and important during its first run of monthly publication, from 1972 to 1987, was that it was both kinds of magazine at once.

Ms. White, she noted, on Tuesday had shared an image of her 100th-birthday cover with her 1.3 million Twitter followers. “People Magazine is celebrating with me!” the post read. It turned out ...