Western Springs, Illinois, once again ranked as the nation's safest and richest city, with a household mean income of $294,896.

Human History Famous Viking Map of North America Is Totally Fake Revealed in 1965, the map was taken as further proof that Vikings reached the Americas before Columbus.

Our conventions as map readers and makers have converged over time to a north-up default. What happens when that convention ...

Researchers in Germany have chanced upon a rare early 16th century map of America by the cartographer who named the continent.

A map of America touted as being one of the oldest on record has turned out to be a convincing forgery, according to new studies. For decades, many believed that the Vinland Map was an important ...

Experts at Yale University have proved the Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake.

A redistricting battle for partisan advantage in Congress could spread from Texas and California to other states. Republican ...

This map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made. Here ...

The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features ...