It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...

What’s in a map? When viewed as historical documents, most maps go far beyond portraying mere place. Rather, they transmit ideas about the priorities, prejudices and preoccupations of the people who ...

Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush and several advisors gathered at Camp David to weigh the country’s options. On the table in front of them, as you can see ...

Tour world-class museums, read historic cookbooks, browse interactive maps and more Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History A stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany is ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google today launched Kartta Labs, an open ...

The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...

This year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, trains a spotlight on a peninsula that is increasingly the source of geopolitical attention. From firework-filled opening ceremonies to a ...