Jourdan Houston

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Jourdan Houston, a free-lance author based in New Hampshire, is especially interested in the history of science.

Articles by Jourdan Houston

The Great Earthquake, August/September 1980 | Vol. 31, No. 5
When The Great Earthquake struck New England, learned men blamed everything from God’s wrath to an overabundance of lightning rods in Boston. Two hundred and twenty-five years later, geologists are at last discovering the true causes. Read >>

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