What makes a witch? How villains like the Wicked Witch of the West set the standard
The mean, green witch and the Evil Queen have thrilled generations of moviegoers. But they also reflect cultural fears about ...
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From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things to ...
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Call the Aztec Midwife: Childbirth in the 16th Century
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came ...
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It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone.
This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... of Raleigh’s Virginia voyages to the history and culture of the modern world is often forgotten ...
Who were the women conquistadors in the Americas?
From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...
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Bred for Battle—Understanding Ancient Sparta’s Military Machine
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...
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Vikings in North America: A Saga’s New Chapter
5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...
The rivalry between ancient Athens and Sparta is infamous—but they may have been more 'frenemies'
Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to ...
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Could Europe’s freakish winter of 1709 happen again?
This story originally published in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.
The tragic history of the largest uninhabited island on Earth
Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s ...
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In Search of the Lost Empire of the Maya
This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic ... the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of ...
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Lucrezia Borgia, Predator or Pawn?
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...