In the changed intellectual climate since historical geography emerged as a substantial geographical subfield, issues of power and modernity have come much to the fore. For Michel Foucault, power is ...

Long belittled for their ignorance of foreign cultures—not to mention an inability to locate well-known countries on world maps—an increasing number of U.S. high school students are taking courses ...

Toponymy and toponomastics are very significant branches of etymology and the onomastic sciences in general. They are interdisciplinary in nature, associating, among others, historical linguistics ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar eclipse record known to the scientific community, enabling accurate ...

Way back in 1932, Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published an Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. It was a seminal reference book, containing almost 700 fascinating maps—and ...

TWO more volumes of Sir Charles Lucas's valuable “Historical Geography of the British Colonies” have appeared, in which Canada and Newfoundland are described. The Canadian volume deals with the ...

A new program on the Global History and Geography II Regents Exam. Regents Review 2.0 program is being developed by WCNY and New York State Teachers in consultation with state organizations. It will ...

Artist's interpretation of an ancient total solar eclipse. This illustration is based on artistic imagination and does not represent the exact appearance of the eclipse recorded in 709 BCE. An ...