This week brings the Santa Anita Handicap, one of horse racing’s biggest events. It also marks the anniversary of the largest payout…
The other week I drove from DC to the coast of Connecticut to join a panel at the Poetry by the Sea…
Seventy years ago outside the soaring stone Louisiana capitol building in Baton Rouge, the governor gave an Arbor Day speech that linked…
The Experience America exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum blends, with a fresh eye, pieces from the museum’s permanent collections –…
For Veterans Day, the Baltimore Sun shares today the story that East Baltimore resident Frank DiCara told me about his experience during…
Last weekend marked the anniversary of one of the first encounters in the War of 1812, the battle between the U.S.S. United…
Happy to have my review of two fine Baltimore writers in the Washington Independent Review of Books. Rafael Alvarez and Clarinda Harriss…
My new guest post on National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog is about my trip to Kyrgyzstan, and stories of empires and herders…
To mark Natonal Doughnut Day on June 6, thousands will trot to their neighborhood doughnut or donut shop for free samples. Here…
My thanks to Erin Allen and the staff at the Library of Congress for featuring this Q&A about the Federal Writers’ Project…
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