Transit aficionados have long been enamored with the various redesigns, reformats and debates around improving our subway maps—whether they're geographically-oriented, smooth, colorful, or historical ...

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 ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We ...

A painting of the library in the house of Domitian on the Palatine. Rome's long history is explored in a new illustrated book on archaeology and history. Wikimedia Commons Rome wasn’t built in a day, ...

On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

Originals and photocopies of historic Erie Canal maps are spread across Steven Talbot's workstation. Using a combination of maps ranging from 1835 to the early 19th century, Talbot created the first ...

If you’re shopping for a history buff and can’t find anything at the big-box stores, consider buying a paper reprint of one of the Texas General Land Office’s nostalgic archival maps for as little as ...