National Geographic History - 03.2019 - 04.2019

When the United States threw its might into the war, Spain was defeated, and its empire was no more. Spain would be riven by blo ...

GEN. VALERIANO WEYLER,SPANISH SCOURGE OF THE CUBAN REBELS, IN A 19TH-CENTURY OIL PAINTING BY JOAN FUSTER. FORT OF SAN CARLOS, PA ...

After a grislyax murder at a brothel, Bennett ran an interview with the madam that is widely believed to have been concocted by ...

REMEMBER THE MAINE THENEWSOFTHESINKINGOFTHEMAINEIN HAVANA INFLAMED AN ALREADY JITTERY AND JINGOISTIC AMERICA. CAPITALIZING ON TH ...

flames showed the vessel with a mine immediately under it. For good mea- sure Hearst created a “War with Spain” card game. The W ...

massive investment in high-powered presses. Some newspapers sought to attract an upscale readership with fact-based reporting, b ...

HARBORING MOTIVES Above, Havana Harbor in 1904. During the U.S. occupation of Cuba—which lasted, on and off, until 1909— the Ame ...

FINISHING THE JOB An American cartoon from the fall of 1898 shows Uncle Sam administering the coup de grâce to the tottering Spa ...

even the respectable New York Times was not above outlandish reporting during the late 19th century, and it employed one of the ...

EARNING RESPECT Victor Lawson helped establish theChicago Daily News (headquarters shown above) as a leader in coverage of inter ...

john maxwell hamilton,journalist and author, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University a ...

DISCOVERIES K nown by anci writers as t “land of a tho sand cities,” t Persian provi of Bactria lies in what now part of Afghani ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 91 Little is known about Ay Khanom’s history pri- or to Alexander’s invasion. The DAFA archaeologist ...

For over 25 years, The Great Courses has brought the world’s foremost educators to millions who want to go deeper into the subje ...

Salvaged Treasures A PLAQUE outside Afghanistan’s National Museum in Kabul reads: “A nation stays alive when its culture stays a ...

DISCOVERIES Geography,some historians identified Ay Khanom as Alexandria in Oxus. Later scholarship, however, casts doubt on thi ...

20127 SumerianTerracotta Cuneiform Tablet. 3 ½” 2200 BC$700² 21274 EgyptianHollow bronze cat head. 4 ½” 663 BC$1,200² 22199 Near ...

ON JUNE 6, 1944,as morning dawned over the beaches of Normandy, Operation Overlord, history’s largest amphibious military campai ...

hile Central Montana boasts a variety of recreational, western and cultural experiences, the region that sits at the heart of Mo ...