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Produced by the New York cartography firm of F. & R. Lockwood, “The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States” was an ...
The current concentration of manufacturing investment in the U.S. is largely in the Southern states, which accounted for nearly two-thirds of the increase in manufacturing facility construction in the ...
As the American federal government is turning its back on PBS, PBS is celebrating the republic. PBS is going all-in on ...
Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those books were un-American.
Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.
Doing Italy founder Thea Duncan Prando shares a look inside her home in Milan, Italy. "I feel incredibly blessed, and I couldn't be happier to be here." ...
“It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it … This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United ...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday her government filed a lawsuit against Google for changing the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on its US-based maps. Sheinbaum said at her ...
Since its founding in 1836, the GLO has preserved thousands of precious records, maps and documents which offer unique perspectives on the geopolitical, cultural, and economic processes that ...
The collection will shed light on the financing of escape routes for Nazis, thousands of whom escaped to South America via so-called “rat lines” after the war. Last month, Argentine President ...
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A region that is closer to zero (green on the map) has a more even distribution of race and ethnic groups, meaning the area is more integrated than segregated. All data was normalized to use the ...