While history books detail past events that shaped the world, historic maps literally show us how the world as we know it ...

She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...

He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into ... the other a collection of historical narratives whose authors included Marco Polo and Christopher ...

This series of historical maps shows the route of the original expedition and several detail maps of Alaskan glaciers developed by Henry Gannett and G. K. Gilbert from information gathered during ...

Dive into the must-read books about maps: from explorations on the history of maritime journeys to depictions of the ...

I was lucky enough to be born in a time where I’ve never had to use physical maps to get places. And while I do find paper ...

Still, it's not like Germany is the only nation to have history inform modern politics. Here's a map of Poland's 2007 parliamentary election. The orange regions are the Powiats (counties ...

For much of its 233-year history, the Ordnance Survey has been synonymous with detailed maps of the British countryside, ...

The standard world map doesn’t include the territories of Indigenous tribes. This mapping project aims to change that.

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...

1986 Historic City of Toledo - Map of the Buffer zone of the World Heritage property 2013 Historic City of Toledo - map of inscribed property Clarification / adopted 2013 Historic City of Toledo - map ...