When the Berlin Wall went up overnight in 1961, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the war in Ukraine would make Russia a winner. This proposed appeasement echoes ...

Johns Hopkins University Press and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched the world’s first searchable digital map ...

After Vladimir Putin declared Russia was ‘ready right now’ to fight Europe, fears have grown over World War 3 breaking out ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

In March 1943, Allied air forces meticulously planned and coordinated a strategic assault in the South West Pacific. Their ...

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had taken the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, marking the ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...