I was having lunch a couple of weeks ago with my editor and her colleagues from National Geographic in Washington DC. They took me to a fantastic restaurant near their offices on K Street, and as we were walking there,… Read More
My eighth grader’s history textbook allocates half a page to Lewis and Clark. It explains in painfully dull detail how in 1803 President Jefferson sent the expedition to explore the new territory he’d just bought from the French (hello, how… Read More
As many as 30,000 forced laborers died from malaria, dysentery, and exhaustion while building St. Petersburg, which became the Russian capital in 1712. It became known as “the city built upon human bones.”