Melissa BaniganFeb 7, 20191 minThe Nine Ghost Villages of Northern FranceOver 300 days during World War One, these villages were completely wiped out – along with hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers – during the Ba...
Melissa BaniganFeb 7, 20191 minPilgrimage to the PastRead an excerpt of my six-page feature in Issue 47 of ZiNG Magazine (Liat's Airline's inflight magazine) about visiting sites in Guadeloupe along UNESCO's Sl...
Melissa BaniganNov 11, 20184 minTrump's Nationalism Kept Him From Honoring Fallen WWI American Soldiers in FranceExactly 100 years ago, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I ended as Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies...
Melissa BaniganOct 21, 20185 minBoudin: A Story of Sausage, Slavery, and Rebellion in the CaribbeanThis story first appeared in NPR's food section, The Salt. The making of boudin is a visceral, bloody and time-consuming process in the French Caribbean terr...