Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

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 When viewed as historical documents, most maps go far beyond portraying mere place.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collecting historic maps is my primary obsession. I got started at the University of Arkansas when working on my master's thesis by preparing a series of surface geologic maps of the Keefer Mountain ...

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 ...

The David Rumsey historical maps “Featured Content” layer seems to be very popular. What some people don’t realize is that it is possible to overlay any historical map image you have yourself. Soren ...