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Holiday Shopping

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.  

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Revolution 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

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Presidents 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...

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The First Travel Ban: Trump is following Peter Stuyvesant’s lead (only more...

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Freedom 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.  

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plant 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...

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Finding 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.

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Q: When Is New York Not New York?

A: When it’s New Amsterdam. My travel article exploring Dutch remnants in the Hudson Valley…

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Space 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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Coming in Feb 2021!

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