Many of us are likely aware that the alphabet song we learned has stirred confusion over the years, with kids slurring the letters L, M, N, O, and P into one word. A ...

Here is an abbreviated list of the people and works cited in The Atlantic’s 1859 essay “Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?”: Socrates, Joan of Arc, Moliere, Ovid, Sappho, Charlemagne, Mohammed, Boaz, ...