I'm in this month's UN Today magazine (the magazine of United Nations civil servants) with an article about Christmas traditions ar...

I've been quoted in this article from The Economist  about the 200th anniversary of "A Visit from St. Nicholas":

I have a long article on the Mississippi in the September issue of History Today (Vol. 69, Issue 9). It was great to use some of the r...

BBC History Magazine  kindly asked me to contribute to the history travel supplement that comes with this month's issue ( January 2013 ...

History Today , August 2011 My article on New Orleans and its historic relationship with disasters of one kind and another is up now on ...

My travel guide to New Orleans in 1858 is out today in this month's  BBC History Magazine  (June 2011). This was a fun piece to write, n...