This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish prisoners; the ominous day-by-day countdown to the opening shots of the Civil War ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

Rashid Diab, one of Sudan's most prolific painters and art historians, sits next to his son, Yafil Mubarak, an artist, ...