In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Christopher Levett, who had sailed to Maine in 1623 in search of a site for ...

In 1941, the Norwegian boat Arnefjord made a perilous 200-mile North Sea crossing, transporting refugees. 83 years later, it ...

TO begin with, the Philippines would have been truly independent as early as 1898 had it not been for the United States ...

Germany is cutting financial support for charities that rescue migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, saying it ...

A nuclear historian has detailed the cities he believes are most at danger of being hit by a nuclear bomb in WW3.

A sneak peek at upcoming County street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows, library events, community ...

Nestled along the waterfront in San Pedro, where container ships lumber past and seagulls perform aerial acrobatics, sits a ...

Like any major U.S. city, Baltimore has its rough areas, but the tourist hotspots surrounding the Inner Harbor, including ...

A long-secret network of tunnels 100 feet below the streets of London could be the city's next big tourist destination.

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In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, we are publishing an excerpt from National Geographic's Atlas of World War II. This new book tells the full dramatic story of WWII through maps, including rare ...