The best places to see the 2024 total solar eclipse
In this week’s newsletter we look back on an indelible moment in U.S. history , learn about the Roman empress who changed the rules (for a while), and more.
Rare color photographs offer intimate glimpse of 1963 March on Washington
In 1963, more than a quarter of a million people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The event gathered together people nationwide to protest segregation, inequality, and economic injustice.James P. Blair’s photos, which weren’t part of any official National Geographic coverage and have rarely been published, offer a unique glimpse into one of the most iconic moments in the country’s history.
How to see the sun
The final total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States until 2044 is happening this year. With a few minutes of totality, the sky will be a sight to behold (above, tourists flocking to an eclipse). Here are all the ways you can see the eclipse—carefully !
Where is this animal hiding?
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Camouflage, or cryptic coloration, allows many different animals to blend into their environment. In fact, some animals use more than one kind of camouflage. From pygmy seahorses (pictured above) to snakes, each animal has its own way of hiding from predators. Which one of these is a camouflage tactic ?
She didn’t play by the rules
This Roman empress was a master strategist. If she were a man, Agrippina (pictured above) might have been one of the greatest. But the great-granddaughter of Augustus gathered enemies with her bare-knuckled move to power, and was later done in by the one man she sought to save .
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