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Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Since the Declaration of Independence was signed nearly 250 years ago, maps have played an important role in the development of our country, including here in North Carolina.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

The 1895 map shows a capitol building in southwest Sedalia surrounded by unusually broad streets and neatly ordered lots — each with its own price tag. They were ambitious times for the west-central ...