Mexico Sued Google Over Gulf of Mexico Name Change, President SaysSat, 10 May 2025 01:38:20 +0000 The unilateral attempt to rename the gulf has provoked ridicule and anger in Mexico. | |
Test Yourself on These Books Set in U.S. State Capital CitiesMon, 03 Mar 2025 16:00:13 +0000 If you still remember the 50 U.S. state capital cities from memorizing them in school, you’ll do well on this week’s literary quiz. | |
Google Maps Renames Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America for U.S. UsersWed, 12 Feb 2025 02:20:59 +0000 People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change follows an executive order from President Trump. | |
How Google Maps Plans to Handle the ‘Gulf of America’Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:28:03 +0000 Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources. | |
Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earthWed, 15 Jan 2025 18:19:00 +0000 She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” | |
Major Events in 2025Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:33:39 +0000 Planning your calendar for next year? Here are some events to look out for. | |
Alice Hudson, Librarian Who Built a Trove of Historic Maps, Dies at 77Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:29:33 +0000 She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most accessible resources. | |
Book Review: ‘Four Points of the Compass,’ by Jerry BrottonTue, 12 Nov 2024 10:04:53 +0000 In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction. | |
How Red and Blue America Shop, Eat and LiveMon, 04 Nov 2024 18:16:12 +0000 Politics map onto our everyday life in surprising ways, a data set of millions of places shows. | |
Tim Walz’s Class Project on the Holocaust Draws New Attention OnlineFri, 09 Aug 2024 20:15:44 +0000 Mr. Walz, now the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, asked his high school students in 1993 which country was most at risk for genocide. Their prediction came to pass: Rwanda. | |