“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — At his desk, in a corner of an office on the main level of the Woodbury County Courthouse, Ron Koch has history sitting out. Or, rather, straightening out. A geographic ...

In the past six months, states including Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have launched multimillion-dollar initiatives to correct and digitize school maps and get them in the hands of local ...

It's surprisingly easy to end up in an unmarked grave, even buried in a city cemetery. David Holt, an associate professor of geography at the University of Southern Mississippi, pointed at an orange ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Madison Metropolitan School District is hoping to make its schools easier to navigate for first responders in the event of any emergencies by bringing the building maps into the ...