What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.

Teaching public storytelling to students can help them communicate better in the world.

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

Teaching public storytelling to students can help them communicate better in the world.

Trump's remarks come amid a deepening cross-border trade feud that has increasingly centered on Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Trump's remarks come amid a deepening cross-border trade feud that has increasingly centered on Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Palm Beach International Airport is set to get a new name and call sign - move over PBI, here comes DJT.

Many residents of the neighborhood formerly called Cameron Park say they’ve moved on under a new name, Forest Park. But some want a court to declare the name change invalid.

At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.

Enslaved people were not just enslaved physically, but mentally as well. as widespread laws in the South barred enslaved people from receiving an education.

The move is part of a longer history of obscuring and demonizing the Haitian Revolution and its leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

The House advanced a measure to return the names of nine U.S. military bases to those recommended by a congressional commission in 2023.

From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.

This asynchronous learning experience offers a series of instructional videos and classroom resources focused on exploring place names as meaningful forms of social and geographic storytelling....

Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful items to ease their suffering.

It's been a year since President Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. We asked people along its shores what they actually call it.

It's been a year since President Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. We asked people along its shores what they actually call it.

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

'Toponymic narcissism' describes someone's obsession with naming things after themselves. Trump's name now seems to be everywhere.

Faculty from UT’s College of Arts and Sciences reach millions of people with their research by writing articles distributed through news organizations around the world. Faculty from the University of ...

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, launching a November tradition. It was also tradition to name municipalities, schools and roads after Lincoln.

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Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.

A little known incident that could have changed history.

Convention suggests wars are named after the participants or the place it which fighting takes place. But who chooses − and why?

Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.

Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.

As many as 10% of enslaved people on St. Croix escaped. Where they went has remained a mystery, but scientists are using new mapping technology to find answers.

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In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents experienced ‘starvation winter’ on the Blackfeet reservation.

The 14-block stretch of road along the Mississippi River is currently named for Edmund Walton, a real estate developer who introduced racially restrictive covenants to Minnesota.

The dedication, held in the Excelsior, where Jerry Garcia grew up, kicked off a weekend of celebrations including Jerry Day and three Dead & Company concerts in Golden Gate Park.

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, experts say.

Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

When Jessie Simmons applied for a teaching job in 1958, her application went to a separate file for “Negro teachers” and got rejected. An education scholar recounts how Simmons fought back and won.

A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political violence and is dangerously simplistic.

Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle.

Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“ − would recognize that impu...

Mass tourism reshapes urban spaces, often at the expense of local communities.

The Trump administration’s crusade against antisemitism looks to be mainly about crippling elite universities and blurring the lines between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.

President Donald Trump reportedly plans to announce during his upcoming trip to the Middle East that the United States will no longer recognize the Persian Gulf, instead renaming it as the "Arabian Gu...