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Discover the story behind the first map of the U.S., created in 1784 by a versatile American craftsman. Learn its historical significance and how it finally gained recognition centuries later.
A redistricting battle for partisan advantage in Congress could spread from Texas and California to other states. Republican ...
Imus map of the United States. So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s ...
The map is a fascinating representation of the protection geography and meteorology gives the millions of people who live in the mid-Atlantic region.
The fact that we've kept the number of U.S. states relatively static is nothing short a miracle—there have been hundreds of attempts at state secession ...
The caption accompanying a map shared to X on July 7, 2024, supposedly represented a dire warning from scientists about climate change: "Scientists say this map represents the US in 30 years if we ...
After a bruising political fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional map. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.
Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 2016, when the ...
This isn't the first map of the internet—government agencies have their own—but it is the first you can see. According to Barford, this map isn't just interesting; it can also be valuable.