The artist Vincencia Blount, known as Tatty to her friends, created drawings informed by ancient and imagined places.

The map is small, but it takes up two pages of Columbus’s travel diary, as if he misjudged the proportions when he began and ran over the crease in the binding with some chagrin.

Each view of the river, like a photograph, captures only one instant of an endlessly moving waterway. The river is always a memory.

a lost world. My longtime home

The information presented provides a single snapshot of the foreign-born population.

There is, of course, nothing inevitable or intrinsically correct—not in geographic, cartographic, or even philosophical terms—about the north being represented as up, because up on a...

Wolcott’s assignment in Virginia made explicit what her photographs from Starke suggested, that the government was preparing for war.

We want to know how Earth has affected us, and we also want to know how we are affecting Earth.

A Romantic post-bellum South with a buried past, secret stories, and poignant memories; a semi-lost civilization, the only guide to which were faded “Maps and Legends” (Fables).

Accuracy was less important than the opportunity maps represented to support the bias and agenda of the cartographer or, more important, the one funding the cartographer.

Photographer Donna Campbell and I set out in the state’s western mountains with nothing more than a back seat full of novels, poetry, essays, and short story collections.

2016 marks the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS).

Maps matter. And they are both shaped by humans and are shaping humans.