In the changed intellectual climate since historical geography emerged as a substantial geographical subfield, issues of power and modernity have come much to the fore. For Michel Foucault, power is ...

Toponymy and toponomastics are very significant branches of etymology and the onomastic sciences in general. They are interdisciplinary in nature, associating, among others, historical linguistics ...

Long belittled for their ignorance of foreign cultures—not to mention an inability to locate well-known countries on world maps—an increasing number of U.S. high school students are taking courses ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card shows eighth-graders’ scores in U.S. history and geography declining since 2014, results Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday called “stark and inexcusable.” ...

Geography is the academic journal of the Geographical Association. It is published three times a year and aims to re-energise the subject at all levels of education by stimulating dialogue and debate ...

We complain that it takes over four hours to travel from New York to Washington, D.C., but it’s easy to forget that modern transportation is pretty damn fast. Over the course of the 19th century, the ...

TWO more volumes of Sir Charles Lucas's valuable “Historical Geography of the British Colonies” have appeared, in which Canada and Newfoundland are described. The Canadian volume deals with the ...