For those who prefer their entertainment with a side of nature, New Bern has plenty to offer. The Croatan National Forest is ...

Nestled in the heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region, Bardstown is a town that feels like it’s been plucked straight out of a ...

You never know what treasures might be hiding in your attic, but if you’ve got a few vintage maps stashed in there, you may ...

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...

Google Maps switched Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Monday. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google said.

“Gulf of America” is now in official use on a U.S. government database of geographic names and on Google Maps after President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order to rename the ...

In other parts, the American and British negotiators got a little fancy. Around Minnesota, they established the border as ...

The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...

The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency over its refusal to call the Gulf ...

In a Feb. 10 release, Google Maps said inside the U.S., the name would be updated to Gulf of America while people in Mexico would see Gulf of Mexico. “Everyone else will see both names,” said ...