For decades, Lansford was a company town. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company owned the land, planned the streets and utilities and provided police coverage. Many of the maps that it created around ...

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably partial and subjective, ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a move that would erode the social safety net and cause a spike in the number of uninsured Am… ...

Long before Ukraine was a modern nation, Viking warriors from Sweden laid the foundations of a medieval Slavic state—the Kievan Rus. Drawn east by silver from the Islamic Caliphate, these Norsemen ...

While such trees are intrinsically compelling, as they capture the evolutionary history which gave us our present biodiversity, they also form essential foundations for many types of future work. For ...

Today marks 77 years since HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex. Since then the vessel has become synonymous with the wider history of migration to Britain. An interactive map at the ...

The fascinating history of the London Overground which stretches back further than you would think.