Frustrations over the exclusion of women from America’s national narrative boiled over ... assigned the tiny assortment of women’s history books available in local elementary schools, she ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Among the many books he wrote in French was a denunciation of Niccolò Machiavelli, in which Frederick ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

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 ...