History by the Slice

  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,...

I trudged along a canal in Berlin back in 2011, hoping to see the inside of one of the few remaining watchtowers in the...

    Imagine you are in ancient Rome inside the famous building, the Pantheon, and it is noon on April 21—the traditional anniversary date for the...

  If you were among the millions who watched the dramatic seventh game of the World Series last year, you might have come away thinking...