At the Spokane ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2007, a guest named Maurice brought in a large and weathered-looking atlas, which he explained to appraiser Stephen Massey had passed down to him from his ...
A famous one-paragraph story by Jorge Luis Borges describes an Empire’s cartography guild that made a map so accurate that it was as large as the Empire itself. This story illustrates both the ideal ...
When European settlers mapped the American continents, they also faced the challenge of charting a course — and a reason — for others to follow suit. Starting Oct. 17, visitors to Colonial ...
1 of 5 — Springfield Museums We Have a Story to Tell At the Springfield Museums in western Massachusetts, the most recent exhibit connected to an aspect of the region’s Native American culture is on ...
Last week, Harvard University Jewish studies professor Derek Penslar and Hebrew University sociology and anthropology professor and former human rights lawyer Yael Berda discussed “settler colonialism ...
Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...