On his first day back in office, he signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Denali, the indigenous ...

The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent ...

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Want more breaking political news ... most notably, Apple Maps and Google Maps are now displaying the name "Gulf of America" ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

In short, names matter — which is why President Donald Trump is trying to undermine their importance. On the president’s ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

overlaid with text saying “GULF OF AMERICA.” Other maps on the USGS website tend to use all capital letters for the names of states and countries, and a mix of uppercase and lowercase text for ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

President Donald Trump's defense secretary can't simply snap his fingers and change Texas' Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood. A federal law stands in the way.