A 5,000-year-old map that some claim outlines the American continents—centuries ... surrounding the map are igniting debates about what ancient civilizations may have really known.

Now a new digital tool makes it easier than ever to see that history ... American "blood" made a person black, even if their heritage was overwhelmingly white. Similarly, on redlining maps ...

Because of the limited data prior to this work, “the [genetic] models that we’ve been using to explain the peopling of the Americas have always been oversimplified,” Jennifer Raff, an anthropological ...

New research published in Science reveals ancient human migration into the Americas occurred in multiple waves, not a single ...

Thanks to a mapping company’s clever approach to Google Maps, it’s possible to learn ... don’t really exist in many nations throughout history. They were rarely created in good faith ...

For more than a decade, he consulted history books and library archives ... Sponsor Message "It's like having a map of North America where the United States is labeled 'gringos' and Mexico ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook ... The complete set of 16 maps, digitized by the David Rumsey Map Collection, represents American forests by genus of tree, density ...

Then, in the early 1960s, American dealer Laurence C. Witten III bought the map for $3,500 and offered ... The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, the people of early medieval ...

The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America by an American was, until a few years ago, hardly known at all. Only seven original copies exist, and the best preserved is now on ...