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Today, the 2,500-acre Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the siege, including 1,325 historic monuments ...

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The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.

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Trentino is a province of collisions. Stitched to the forested underbelly of South Tyrol, just south of the Swiss and ...

Howard Tucker has been practicing medicine since 1947. Ahead of his 103rd birthday, the neurologist shares his thoughts on ...

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...