Tarot cards don't just tell the future. Here's what they reveal about the past.
From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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The Know-Nothings: the United States' first anti-immigration party
Amy Briggs is the Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine . This story appears in the July/August 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It was first published online ...
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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 ...
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How Black artists helped make country music what it is today How Black artists helped make country music what it is today ...
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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 ...
The booming surf destination you've never heard of
Skyscrapers meet the sea in South Korea’s second-largest city. And as the home of the first surf schools in the country, it’s ...
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See 100 years of LGBTQ history mapped across New York City
This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. STONEWALL INN ... and researchers are reconstructing its hidden history. To create a map of nightlife, Jeff Ferzoco ...