At the Spokane ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2007, a guest named Maurice brought in a large and weathered-looking atlas, which he explained to appraiser Stephen Massey had passed down to him from his ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces ...

A stolen map, dating from the 1700s, was recently recovered by the FBI and returned to the National Archives of Mexico at a ceremony in Albuquerque on Tuesday. Speaking at the Consulate of Mexico, ...

When European settlers mapped the American continents, they also faced the challenge of charting a course — and a reason — for others to follow suit. Starting Oct. 17, visitors to Colonial ...

Earlier this month, the academic journal People and Nature published a research article titled, “Words are Monuments: Patterns in US national park place names perpetuate settler colonial mythologies ...

1 of 5 — Springfield Museums We Have a Story to Tell At the Springfield Museums in western Massachusetts, the most recent exhibit connected to an aspect of the region’s Native American culture is on ...

If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

The Ethiopian state of Tigray is the latest region to attempt to break away from the central government of an African nation. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front retook the capital city of Mekelle ...