From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

It took over a century for the US electoral map to geographically assume the form that we associate with it today. A look at ...

for the first time in U.S. history, one party turned the executive office to another The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

The world’s first multinational company was also the first to be listed on a stock exchange. Of course, there’s a bit of a ...

FISH-EATING spiders the size of human hands are on the loose in Britain - here's a map revealing where colonies are lurking. Thousands of Fen raft spiders are set to invade the UK after the ...

A Pentagon agency that pioneered such technologies as four-legged robots is now giving rise to reefs made with coral and oyster colonies that ... storm surges. The first section of an ...

More than three years on, this grand elevated road project, which targets the decongestion of the areas around the seven Government Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) colonies, remains only on ...

After first appearing in birds in Argentina in February of 2023, a "highly pathogenic" strain of H5N1 was spotted in infected ...