After leaving Parrish, we travel to the western edge of Des Moines County. That area was at one time called Jug Town. In 1848 ...
The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia ...
American Gen. Wade Hampton marched his 2,000 soldiers along the banks of the Châteauguay River, part of a two-pronged ...
Those visiting the Chief Vann House Historic Site, 82 Highway 225, through the end of April can view our collection of framed, unique 18th century maps featuring the southeastern states ...
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and ...
LOS ANGELES — The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an ...
Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order from President Trump. MapQuest has not yet updated its map to reflect Trump's order.
After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...
The company’s decision to follow Trump’s order on Google Maps quickly ... the Gulf of America label applies to “the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest ...
The National Hurricane Center storm tracking map, a feature as familiar to Floridians as tourist season traffic, now calls the yawning sea cradled between Mexico and the Keys the Gulf of America.