Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the recent news event of a fire at the iconic landmark. It was originally published in the May/June 2017 issue of National Geographic History Magazine.

Christine de Pisan upended medieval norms not only by refusing to remarry but also by being the first woman to make a living with her pen. Christine de Pisan helped craft the beautifully illustrated ...

Water fluoridation has been described by the Centre for Disease Control as one of the ten most important public health advances of the 20th Century 1. In this brief paper, I will describe the history ...

Vredefort Dome, approximately 120 km south-west of Johannesburg, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme. Dating back 2,023 million years, it is the oldest ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to have preserved its ramparts, together with the numerous bastions, gates and ...

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