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Though the ritual of buying school supplies is often blamed on school budgets, the debate around who should supply what is at least a century old.

Though the ritual of buying school supplies is often blamed on school budgets, the debate around who should supply what is at least a century old.

More than a century after a Baptist minister from upstate New York took credit for writing the Pledge of Allegiance, new evidence suggests the possibility of a very different story.

is a column that revisits once-popular companies and brands that have seemingly disappeared. Before the bullet journal, the pricey Japanese planner Hobonichi Techo, and the pocket-sized, collector-friendly Field Notes, many of today’s self-defined superorganizers had a Trapper Keeper. You might remember the three-ring, color-coded, Velcroed school binder, whose ubiquity in the 1980s and ’90s makes it a byword for nostalgia. For a whole generation, it was our first information organization system, a child’s garden of productivity. The Trapper Keeper was itself well planned, the...