This story is part of The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic that explores how race defines, separates, and unites us. When Amanda Wanklin and Michael Biggs fell in love, they “didn’t ...
The fire in 1831 spared the Cathedral of Notre Dame itself. The rioters scrambled up the roof and toppled a giant iron cross; they shattered stained glass, took axes to a statue of Jesus, smashed one ...