Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier this month jokingly suggested North America, including the United States, be renamed "Mexican America" - a historic name used on an early map of the region.

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Washington | Google Maps will change the name of “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” once the US government updates ...

Earlier this month, Mexico's Sheinbaum joked that because a world map from 1607 — 169 years before the US was founded — labeled North America as ... Gulf located south of Iran, for example ...

The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali, the tallest mountain in ...