Fine Maps

On the day after Christmas, 1944, ball turret gunner Kenje Ogata found himself in the belly of a B-24 bomber under enemy fire over Hungary.

Four years ago the Empire Marketing Board wasn’t in existence, now, you can go nowhere without being reminded of its influence,” wrote an unidentified female correspondent.

Standing on a small hill overlooking Dunkard Creek, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon aligned their latest survey post “and heaped around it Earth and Stone three yards and a half diameter at the Bo

There is a river in the ocean,” announced Matthew Fontaine Maury to the first congress of the National Institute for the Advancement of Science.

Thanks to a map painstakingly researched by Edmond Halley, Londoners were well prepared for the great solar eclipse of 1715.

Carrying little more than a pocket notebook and pencil, John Bachelder spent three months slogging across the war-ravaged Gettysburg battlefield.

Disappointed with the maps of Scandinavia that were circulating throughout Europe in the early sixteenth century, Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) set out on a twelve-year quest to map the region to a leve

Maps set “the stage on which the drama [of politics and business] is played,” reads Rand McNally’s full-page advertisement from 1924, “[and] without this stage, the plot is meaningless.” The statem

In the late summer of 1854, an eerie silence descended over Soho in London’s West End.