When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Elections in multiple states on Tuesday are set to gauge how voters feel in the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency — and whether Democrats have improved their standing with the midterm ...

Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society.

Just a few doors down from Sherlock Holmes’ famous address, The Volunteer got its name from its history as a recruiting ...

According to Spain’s 17th-century royal chronicler, Antonio de Herrera, Cabrilho was a Portuguese navigator, making Cabrilho ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern Court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a ...

Alejandro Kirk grew up in Tijuana, Mexico, roughly a 2 1/2-hour drive south of Dodger Stadium, where late Mexican icon ...

After a 26-20 party line vote in the state Senate earlier this week, and a 66-48 vote in the House on Wednesday, the new North Carolina map is set to go into effect. North Carolina state law does not ...

The history of cartography traces humanity's relentless quest to understand and depict the world around us. From ancient civilizations sketching rudimentary maps to modern digital cartography, this ...

Jane Anderton spoke out for what she believed in and voters responded. She is now the first woman in the history of the city of Clay to be elected mayor. Anderton spent 10 years advocating for the ...