The backdrop to New York’s 20th century cocktail scene was hand-painted. After years of minimalist bar design, the frescoes ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Long ago, as an eight-year-old boy standing on the roof of a three-story tenement in Brooklyn, I first experienced a ...

The September 11th attacks took the lives of more than 3,000 Americans, and transformed the US in countless ways. It sparked the Global War on Terror (which the US is ...