History by the Slice

The life of a giant is no piece of cake. I recently listened to a book about the making of the classic movie, The Princess...

We had just stepped off of the bus at the Dan archaeological site in northern Israel when our guide told us to quickly turn...

Walking into the Dead Sea is like trying to walk across a polished floor in roller skates. When I arrived at the Dead Sea in...

  The only time I ever got motion sickness was in a helicopter as the pilot kept turning it in circles over the coast of...

By Doug Peterson It was pitch dark, it was storming, and Seth Kerlin had no idea if he was heading toward shore or if he...

Publishers Weekly, the main trade magazine for the publishing industry, recently featured a nice review for my latest book, The Call of the Mild....

Hundreds of people were packed into a side chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome when a bearded man with long, red hair suddenly...

I made my way through the narrow passage, following a single-file line of tourists. But if this were the 1600s, I would be following...

        In 1979, schoolteachers in Poland were told to inform their students that the man about to visit their country “is our enemy.” Teachers were...

The sky was as blue as the Aegean Sea when my wife and I left our hotel and hiked off to visit the Parthenon,...