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We found these magazines in the attic of our new house. They'd lain untouched for almost 100 years. The world seemed so much bigger back then - here we find articles about "Darkest Africa ...

Daddis explores the ways fantasy images of war have been perpetuated throughout history and have given young men unrealistic, warped views on masculinity.' Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Co-Directors of ...

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 ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Water was transported not only for drinking but also for public fountains, such as this Roman one ...