It began life as a humble collection of paper scraps — now, the yellow-lined legal pad is a must-have for writers, musicians, and of course lawyers. Madeleine Brand talks about the history of the ...

"End career as a fighter," President Richard Nixon wrote on a legal pad in August 1974. Five days later, on the top of another one, he scratched, "Resignation Speech." Jeff Tweedy, front man for the ...

The legal pad got its start with Thomas Holley in 1888. Holley was 24 and working at a paper mill in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Every day, he and his co-workers threw out a lot of scrap pieces, called ...

Which tracing paper is best? Tracing paper is useful for those who are learning to sketch as well as those drawing freehand. This style of paper usually is bound together in the form of an artist pad ...