Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 201… ...

America was put on the map 500 years agoIn 1507, ... Vespucci did not die until 1512," wrote John Hebert, the library's chief of the geography and map division.

THE writing of a short text-book is as much an art as the writing of a short story, and little latitude for self-expression can be allowed to those who work for schools. Mr. T. Alford Smith ...

Pictorial maps thrived in the United States from the 1920s to the ’60s, says Stephen Hornsby, a professor of geography at the University of Maine and author of a new book, Picturing America: The ...