Codification activities are an opportunity for students to provide or invent a context that links curriculum concepts together. In the case of earthquake education, a codification activity should help ...

Josh Kun wanted to document Los Angeles’ history through autographs, so he started in an obvious place: the signatures of the famous. But then he went to an unexpected place: the streets, where he ...

In a new age of auto-signatures and celebrity selfies, it’s easy to dismiss autographs as a dying art. But to Josh Kun, author and director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication, autographs are ...

Tetsuo Nozoe’s hobby started innocently enough. The chemistry professor, of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, asked for a simple signature in a blank notebook as a remembrance of his visit to West ...

If you were a teenager in the ’50s, you probably had an autograph book. It was a 4-by-6-inch leather booklet, the cover reading “Autographs” printed in gold, with blank pages inside. In this booklet, ...