Hartmann Schedel created “The Nuremberg Chronicle,” an illustrated history of the world going all the way back to biblical times. In an accompanying map, he taught society about the types of ...

Though largely a product of the past now found mainly in history books, colonialism's effects still linger today.Assembled below are maps of historical empires, some of which rivaled the British ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial ... Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity. *Note: The 2023 update for this text and the map ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.