Sean Munger

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.

The death of Hu Yaobang: The first chapter of a story that changed the world.

How the prosaic demise of a Chinese Communist bureaucrat triggered one of the most important movements in recent history.

The forgotten victim of the Lincoln assassination plot: The attack on William Seward.

While Booth was shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theater, another terrible crime was happening just blocks away.