On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

We love maps. From ancient scribbles on parchment to the artistically drawn atlases of explorers, maps have given us confidence, structure, and a sense of control. They provide a clear path, a set of ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...

One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...