Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900. Modernity is slowly replacing the old ways in this view of turn-of-the-century Ireland.
My history with a tragedy: How TWA Flight 800 taught me about critical thinking. My own history with the terrible 1996 tragedy is a complicated and difficult one.
Behind the Scenes: TWA, The Rise & Fall. My latest video delves into the history of one of America's most iconic airlines, now long vanished.
Photo: A beautiful dawn on an ordinary winter day. A reminder to savor the ordinary beauty in the world.
Adventures in aggrieved entitlement: The nightmare world of tax protesters. What happens to your life when grumbling at your tax bill becomes a moral crusade? Nothing good, as history shows.
Interiors: Den at “Slabsides,” John Burroughs’s rustic cabin, West Park, New York. John Burroughs, naturalist and writer, built this house in 1895 from all local materials.
The lost cataclysm: The Cascadia earthquake and tsunami of 1700. An earthquake off the coast of Oregon rocked the land, caused tsunamis in Japan and then seemingly vanished from history.