Selected Articles

We Had Marlon Brando’s Island Utopia to Ourselves

November 2021
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

The Polynesian ‘Prince’ Who Took 18th-Century England by Storm

September 2021
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE

Douglas MacArthur Is One of America’s Most Famous Generals. He’s Also the Most Overrated

November 2019
TIME MAGAZINE

Remembering the Forgotten War

November 2018
NEW YORK TIMES

The Pipe Dream

November 2017
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

The Pipe Dream

November 2017
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

Room 306

April/May, 2017
GARDEN & GUN

Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Sting

January 2017
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE

A Heart that Watches and Receives

June 2017
LONGREADS

The Cure

July 2016
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE

Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania

March 2015
NEW YORK TIMES

Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets

May 2015
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

City Portrait: Memphis, Tennessee

April/May 2015
GARDEN & GUN

What Drives Cristiano Ronaldo?

October 2014
MEN’S HEALTH

Why an 1879 Voyage Is a Time Machine for Climate Change

August 2014
WALL STREET JOURNAL

Tracing the Steps of Lost Explorers in Miserable, Beautiful Siberia

July 2014
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

Wake-Up Call: Surviving an Attack by Flesh-Eating Bacteria

September 2013
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

Wrangel Island

May 2013
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Life’s Rich Pageant

June 2012
BICYCLING MAGAZINE

Unseen Titanic

April 2012
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Quadzilla

March 2012
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

Frozen Assets

Summer 2011
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

The Fall of Greg Mortensen and Our Longing for Heroes

April 2011
NEWSWEEK

Lessons of the MLK Assassination

January 2011
NEWSWEEK

The Man Who Saw Too Much

January 2011
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

Decades after assassinations, Memphis and Dallas remain hostages of history.

November 2010
DALLAS NEWS

Not So Charming Billy

September 2010
NEW YORK TIMES

National Defense

June 2010
NEW YORKER

Bear Grylls Plays Dirty

April 2010
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

1,000 Days in the Ice

January 2009
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Lusitania Rising

January 2009
MEN’S VOGUE

Anyone For a Dip?

October 2007
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

The Trial of General Homma

February/March 2007
AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Place Where Two Fell Off

October 2006
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

The First to Die

October 2003
MEN’S JOURNAL

Doha Postcard: A Centcom Star

April 2003
NEW YORKER

Unembedded

March 2003
NEW YORKER

The Birdman Drops In

October 2002
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE

The Survivors

September 2002
MEN’S JOURNAL

Crazy in the Desert

October 1999
MEN’S JOURNAL

Where Have All the Wise Men Gone?

July 1998
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE