One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American Geographical Sciences Library at UW-Milwaukee is a world-renowned repository.

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

To be named "world capital" of something is both a badge of honor, yet also something of a badge of shame, writer George Pendle tells NPR's Robert Siegel. It means your city revolves entirely around a ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

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A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t ...

Cartographer Robert Szucs uses satellite data to make stunning art that shows which oceans waterways empty into Shi En Kim - Reporter Ocean drainage basins of the ...

If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books ...

Welcome to the Geography Minefield! Get ready to test your map skills and challenge your knowledge of the world. In this quiz ...

When you think about the world of cartography, antique sepia maps are likely the first images that come to mind. But nomadic digital cartographer Robert Szucs saw the potential to turn nature’s ...