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I don’t think I’ve ever posted an ad, but it’s my website so why not. I’m in very good company here.
View ArticleRevolution Talk
My talk on “Revolution Song” at the New-York Historical Society, via C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?436637-1/revolution-song
View ArticlePresidents Day Test: Name All the Similarities Between Trump & Washington
For more than a century, Presidents Day epitomized the inconsequential national holiday. Its significance, for most of us, begins and ends with a day off work (if we even get one). But that attitude...
View ArticleThe First Travel Ban: Trump is following Peter Stuyvesant’s lead (only more...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/travel-ban-supreme-court-new-amsterdam.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=op...
View ArticleFreedom and Its Limits
What was it like to live as a slave and then a free man through the period of America’s founding? My new podcast episode on the life of Venture Smith is out today on iTunes.
View Articleplant a tree
The world is getting crazier by the day, so when someone asks you to post an article about how to plant a tree you suddenly say to yourself, “Why not? Maybe this is a tiny way I can help things.” So...
View ArticleFinding Rembrandt
No one had spotted a new painting by the Dutch master for four decades — until the scion of a storied Amsterdam family found two. My cover story in the New York Times Magazine.
View ArticleQ: When Is New York Not New York?
A: When it’s New Amsterdam. My travel article exploring Dutch remnants in the Hudson Valley…
View ArticleSpace Is the Place!
Plans are afoot for departing planet Earth. How to start a colony in space? Look to the past, of course. My piece in Slate.
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