Flip through some of the most compelling National Geographic covers from the last 50 years. See every issue since 1888 cover-to-cover with Nat Geo PLUS, subscribing members’ all-access pass to ...

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 ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the ...

The opportunity to work at Gombe with Jane would be a huge break for the 25-year-old Dutchman, who had some experience in natural history ... National Geographic magazine’s August 1963 cover ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... Its footprint would cover your dining room. Trying to glimpse its tippy top, or craning to ...