Voila! My new book: North America: A Fold-Out Graphic History. Published by What on Earth Books, in conjunction with Smithsonian, it’s an eight-foot-long, accordion-style timeline of Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean. You can read more about it at… Read More
In 986, a Viking named Bjarni Herjólfsson became the first European to spot North America. He was lost, trying to sail from Iceland to Greenland.… Read More
The first stanza of the poem that begins “There was a little girl, /Who had a little curl,/right in the middle of her forehead…” has been attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.