Melissa Banigan
The Nine Ghost Villages of Northern France
Over 300 days during World War One, these villages were completely wiped out – along with hundreds of thousands of French and German...
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Melissa Banigan
- Feb 6, 2019
- 1 min
Pilgrimage to the Past
Read an excerpt of my six-page feature in Issue 47 of ZiNG Magazine (Liat's Airline's inflight magazine) about visiting sites in...
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Melissa Banigan
- Nov 11, 2018
- 4 min
Trump's Nationalism Kept Him From Honoring Fallen WWI American Soldiers in France
Exactly 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...
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Melissa Banigan
- Oct 21, 2018
- 5 min
Boudin: A Story of Sausage, Slavery, and Rebellion in the Caribbean
This story first appeared in NPR's food section, The Salt. The making of boudin is a visceral, bloody and time-consuming process in the...
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