The Invisible Hand of the Vampire (Copy)
Two centuries ago, an unseen terror was killing New Englanders. They went to macabre lengths to protect the living. The Boston Globe Magazine, October 26, 2023.
A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure
One of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions, which appeared to be a Galileo manuscript, is now thought to be a 20th-century forgery. The New York Times, August 18, 2022.
Why a Schoolteacher Spent 70 Years Collecting Thousands of Black History Artifacts
Elizabeth Meaders’ acquisitions include sports memorabilia, civil rights posters, military paraphernalia and art. Smithsonian, February 22, 2022.
Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for Shakespeare's Plays
"If it proves to be what they say it is, it is a once-in-a-generation - or several generations - find." The New York Times front page, February 9, 2018.
Twenty percent of home-schooled kids are getting ‘unschooled.’ What’s that?
The resource centers are popping up around Boston, around the idea that children should get to choose what they learn. The Boston Globe Magazine, October 2, 2018.
The Prisoner
Theo Padnos spent nearly two years captive in an al-Qaeda prison in Syria. It was Vermont that saved him. Middlebury Magazine, Winter 2017.
Newspaper Man
In a 40-year journalism career, including eight years as editor of The Boston Globe, Matt Storin racked up scoops and his paper pulled in Pulitzers through a relentless drive to be right and be first. Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 2019.
Dramatic Stress
As part of the Shakespeare Anthology Project—the brainchild of noted actress, director, scholar, and impresario Tina Packer—students learned to wound and be wounded, with words and with swords drawn. And to consider why. Boston College Magazine, Winter 2015.