In the second part of our series, we take a look at how more Mexican states' names came to be and what they mean today.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is the second in a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.

Google will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Google Maps app, the company has said, after US President Donald Trump ordered that the body of water be renamed in US ...

According to Ptolemy, the Indian Ocean was enclosed, a feature reflected in 15th-century maps, such as that of Nicolaus Germanus (1482). In 1450, the monk Fra Mauro created a mappa mundi that ...

Google Maps will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in ... topics of great public interest," he said the day before his Inauguration. Trump has not specified what kind ...

President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is already resulting in changes across the federal government and military. Google Maps has indicated ...

WASHINGTON — You won't be able to find the Gulf of Mexico or Denali on Google Maps anymore, at least by those names. In a post on X Monday, Google said it has received a few questions about ...

Google plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and that of the Alaskan mountain Denali to Mount McKinley in Google Maps, the company said Tuesday in a series of tweets.

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” for American users, but for users in Mexico, the Gulf will continue to be ... as it was originally called before the Obama administration officially ...

and raised diplomatic concerns with Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has cheekily suggested calling the United States "Mexican America," pointing to a map from before one-third of her ...

Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico Win McNamee/Getty; Google Maps Google Maps will soon change ...