2020-03-01 National Geographic History

GREEK MYTHOLOGY features tales of feared warrior women, the Amazons who fought alongside Greeks at Troy and fought against the g ...

PLUS: 30 Seconds in Tombstone: Shoot-out at the O.K. Corral PIRATES OF ANTIQUITY SCOURGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN MYSTERIES OF ISIS ...

Discover this spectacular 6½-carat green treasure from Mount St. Helens! F or almost a hundred years it lay dormant. Silently bu ...

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor Xanadu: The name captures the imagination. Its most f ...

EXECUTIVE EDITOR AMY E. BRIGGS Deputy Editor JULIUS PURCELL Editorial Consultants JOSEP MARIA CASALS (Managing Editor, Historia ...

4 NEWS A research boat probing the Pacific depths found the wrecks of two Japanese carriers lost in World War II’s pivotal Battl ...

THE RESEARCH VESSEL PETREL has located more than 30 historically significant shipwrecks in the Pacific, including the aircraft c ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 5 Following a debris field, the vehicles came upon a wreck deeply embedded in the sea- floor. This v ...

SPIRAL OF THE SORYU This iconic image of the Battle of Midway was taken from an American B-17 bomber and shows the Japanese airc ...

I.J.N. AKAGI Designed as a battle cruiser in the 1920s, the Akagi was converted into a carrier by the Imperial Japanese Navy in ...

PROFILES 8 MARCH/APRIL 2020 France’s First Lady of Letters 1405 The Book of the City of Ladies is published, in which Christine ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 9 Working Woman She found work as the manager of a scriptorium, where she supervised the work of cal ...

The City of Ladies These miniatures are from a French 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Christine de Pisan’s allegorical wo ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 11 PROFILES of Ladies). In it, Christine imagines a city occupied by remarkable women from history: ...

12 MARCH/APRIL 2020 MAPPING THE PAST aiming to reflect the reality on the ground, and to provide a map that was of more practica ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 13 PLAN OF THE CITY OF IMOLA, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, 1502. LEONARDIANO MUSEUM, VINCI, ITALY DEA/SCALA ...

14 MARCH/APRIL 2020 friend John “Doc” Holliday. The oth- er was a loose band of outlaws called the “cowboys”: Among their member ...

MILESTONES Brothers Against Brothers By 1881 Tombstone had a population of more than 7,000 and was the seat of the newly formed ...