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​HISTORY, CULTURE & DESIGN

The Barrier-Breaking Howard University Crew Team • Smithsonian 
The Future of Confederate Monuments ​• 
National Parks Traveler
Soldier Stories • Landscape Architecture
Graffiti and the Civil War • The New York Times
Leading the Charge • Arlington magazine

The National Mall Finally Gets Its Crown • Architect 
Loving Lustrons ​• 
Preservation

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NATURE & SCIENCE
Science Writing & Curiosity • Choose to Be Curious podcast
Regeneration 
• Acadia Nat'l Park artist-in-residence essay
The Wild East & The Appalachian Trail • AT Journeys
Astrotourism and the National Parks • Undark
Science to Design • Landscape Architecture
Dredging Up The Future • Landscape Architecture
Light That Protects the Night • Redshift
Building Amid the World's Highest Mountains • Architect
Detonation (nature fiction) • Little Patuxent Review
This Starred Place • UnFold Poetry 
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​LIFE LESSONS

The Perfume of the Dying • Ars Medica 
Remembering the Rotating Elephant • Brain, Child 
Helping a 3-Year-Old Find His Voice • Washington Post
When in Doubt, Make Spring Rolls
 
• Ladies Home Journal
Newtown & Selective Mutism 
• PsychologyToday.com 
Mother Tongue • This I Believe (podcast)
The Sound of Silence • Arlington magazine
A Feast for What Was Lost ​
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Exhale literary magazine