Sean Munger

Hitler’s American deejay: The strange story of Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars.

How a frustrated American actress became a notorious traitor--and paid the price.

Four minutes of enlightening darkness: The great solar eclipse of May 1715.

Correctly predicted by Edmond Halley, the eclipse was visible proof of the power of scientific thought.

More concept art for “Faraway Star” is out!

Here is another image relating to my upcoming science fiction book, out this summer.

Historic Photo: Panorama of San Francisco, 1878.

Groundbreaking photographer Eadweard Muybridge stitched together this panorama of the Victorian-era city seen from its highest point.

Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part II].

The continuing story of the great World's Fair, which despite the delight it brought to millions was a financial disaster.

Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part I].

In 1964, Robert Moses got his last hurrah as the big builder of the Big Apple. What hath Bob wrought?

A bird out of hand: My reminiscences on the rise and fall of Twitter.

Twitter should be destroyed. It should not exist anywhere, at any time, in any incarnation. It is evil.