On January 1, 1914, the first scheduled passenger flights began soaring through the skies between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. With the dawn of civil air travel came the need for airlines to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore talked about different examples of historic interpretations of the world. She explored various examples of maps ...

This article, originally published on Sept. 25, 2017, has been updated to reflect Clery geography changes. The school year has just barely begun for many colleges and universities, but campus ...

After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...