Nearly three decades ago, on a clear October morning, my third-grade teacher asks us to line up so that we might make the world, our bodies representing countries and bodies of water. “Single file,” ...

Geography teachers tend to put their students to sleep. And no wonder. Until you’ve been there, who cares where the Rhine River runs? Or what kind of winters they have in North Korea? Or which ocean ...

Nearly three decades ago, on a clear October morning, my third-grade teacher asked us to line up so that we might make the world: Our bodies representing countries and bodies of water. “Single file,” ...