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

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 ...

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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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 ...