In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...

We track Pepys’s astronomical rise from impoverished young hopeful to the most influential mandarin in the navy bureaucracy (Getty) One’s book of a lifetime should become a total obsession – a work ...

"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just catching up on my latest diary entry." Wikimedia Commons Samuel Pepys kept a diary for just nine years. Thankfully for historians—if not for Pepys, who ...

Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she ...