More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

The strongest car brand in the world is Jeep,” I recall Bob Lutz saying at some kind of Chrysler young-leaders event back ...

Vintage road maps are more than just navigational tools; they are cultural artifacts that reflect the history and evolution ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Where President James Monroe conjured his original Monroe Doctrine to “keep European powers out of the region,” Trump instead has treated Latin America as an “extension of the U.S. homeland.” In ...

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My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.

The Heritage Foundation released an interactive map of American historical sites, aiming to give visitors an idea of what to expect from each site as people are expected to travel across the country ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

The government shutdown has reached its 35th day, and now shares the record for longest-ever with the partial shutdown in ...