In just ten months, Bingham (in Marseille) provided aid, including travel documents, to some 2,500 Jewish refugees-thereby effectively ending his career. USHMM, Courtesy of Hiram Bingham An ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When New England missionary Hiram Bingham arrived in Hawaii in 1820, he was dismayed to find the natives indulging ...

Harry Bingham's father's crowning achievement was his exploration of Machu Picchu almost 100 years ago. Yet Hiram Bingham III's status as the "discoverer" of the ruins is in dispute, and the ...

The outside world first learned of Machu Picchu in 1911, when American explorer Hiram Bingham, guided by local farmers, navigated the dense tropical forests of southern Peru and came across the ...