Three years after Connecticut became the third state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 education ...

A foot and a half of rain pushed the water levels of at least four rivers in Washington, including the Skagit River, to hit ...

UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

Buildings dating to the 1800's, when the site was a nationally-significant U.S. Lighthouse Service Depot, sit unused in a ...

A new book, Cincinnati in 50 Maps, documents the city in 50 different ways through detailed maps and narrative storytelling.

Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

Eric Sanderson spent the night as remnants of Hurricane Ida arrived over New York City in the same, sorry way as so many others. He waded through the flooded basement of his home on City Island in the ...

Sometimes the past holds secrets waiting to be rediscovered. Using a 110-year-old map, we tracked down a hidden cache of ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...