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Feature / As major media capitulated to Trump this past year, student journalists held the powerful to account—both on campus and beyond. Adelaide Parker, Fatimah Azeem, Tareq AlSourani, and William ...
A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Its title was “The Europeans.” A few respectful reviews aside, and despite a parallel American edition, the book didn’t have much immediate impact — far less than the work Cartier-Bresson had ...
If you're a Google Maps user from Europe, Google has fantastic news for you. Some of the features announced in 2025 are are still rolling out on the Old Continent, making it easier to navigate, no ...
The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...
In a study published in the Journal of Historical Geography, researchers Dr. Chris McCarthy and his colleagues have ...
In 1776, the United States of America as we know it declared independence. And from the 18th century to today, the country ...
Amid rising tensions over Greenland and unease in Canada, analysts are revisiting a 19th-century idea once used to justify ...
The artwork at the Opium War Museum in Humen, Guangdong province, depicts an enclave by the Pearl River in Guangzhou where Western traders lived in the 19th century. The province was then called ...