GENEVA — Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a ...

Using a day-by-day progression, we guide viewers through the colonization of North America with Google Earth as our map and ...

From Canada to Central America, the many grandeurs of North America's diverse topography star in a just-released high-resolution map from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. But a ...

The first of three maps “visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands mapped ...

1812 was a weird year. The U.S., as a country, was still a baby. For the second time, America was at war with the British, and Canada had just burned down the White House. Looking back after 200 years ...

Remember when that crazy Russian professor said America would break up into several different nations? He may not have been totally far off. In a new article in Tufts Magazine, Colin Woodard, author ...