were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those studying the Introduction to Cosmography in ...

What remains is "inland" America, with only a short stretch of Gulf coast as its own outlet to the world seas. Or as the map ...

The first world war began in 1756 ... Malcolm Lewis, expert on maps and North American native cultures, explains: "It was almost certainly used in the process of negotiating with the Piankashaw ...