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A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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including those that funded National History Day (NHD). NHD is a competition for sixth- through 12th-grade students to create history presentations, such as papers, documentaries, performances ...

A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this ...

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They still deserve to be celebrated. The choices and predilections of leaders can bring national triumph, or catastrophe and unfathomable suffering. He was one of a kind, and America is better off ...