Centuries ago, maps weren’t just tools,they were stories, shaped as much by imagination as exploration. Among the most ...

North and South America. This map, drawn in 1540 by by Sebastian Münster, was the very first printed map that called the great body of water to the west of the land by the name Pacific.

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested David M. Perry and ...

This 13-by-19-inch sheet of parchment depicts territories between Europe and Asia, known as Vinland or the New World. The map seems to challenge the common 20th-century narrative of Christoper ...

McShea has done for early modern North America and New France what Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State did for the France of the 13th century. The result is a triumph of the historian ...

The result was my 1981 book, “The Nine Nations of North America.”The reader reaction was astonishing. This map – drawn to anticipate the news – revealed something much deeper.

Although the map played a role in loosening Britain’s imperial grip on North America, its original purpose was just the opposite. John Mitchell was born in 1711 to a family of relatively wealthy ...