A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

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This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

On a chilly January afternoon, Susannah Maidment stands on the shore of a London lake, staring down a pack of dinosaurs. Maidment, a curator at the U.K.’s Natural History Museum, has come with ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. ... “You can use DNA to look through a periscope that goes far back in history,” she says.

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At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most ...