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Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

Cartography, the practice of map making has a long and intriguing history. Experts think that a wall painting depicting the ancient Anatolian city of Catal Huyuk, which dates to the seventh millennium ...

Unknown Artist Mizantla Mexico, 1579. Watercolor and ink on paper22.8 x 16.5 in. Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at ...

Using geographic information systems (GIS) and archaeology to model industrial hazards in postindustrial cities to guide planning and development. More people live in cities than in rural areas for ...

Since Jane Todd Breck, an aunt of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, was interred in 1856, approximately 18,773 burials have taken place at the Richmond Cemetery. After 161 years, however, headstones can ...