Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is revealing new things about the birth of China.

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

Researchers value the collection because it reveals how environmental changes affect fish. This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic ... During World War II, U.S. Navy ...

And despite rampant racism and discriminatory laws, Black Americans made critical contributions in the United States, from the military service of Crispus Attucks in the Revolutionary War to ...

Photographed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine This story appears in the January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... During the Vietnam War, Tu had been tapped to work on ...

Whenever any of the five dozen or so other vendors falls ill or has a family emergency, it’s usually Zúñiga who takes up a collection ... the Gallup–National Geographic Index, designed ...