In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

It’s not precisely clear why a 16th-century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus, who historically ...

After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online map provider to flip the switch. Trump issued the executive order on Thursday as part of an ongoing ...

Apple has officially begun to change Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on Apple Maps for users within the United States. The move comes after an executive order from President Donald Trump, which already ...