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 ...

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

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 ...

American 8th graders know less about history and geography than they used to--largely because we've mistakenly assumed that teaching those things isn't important. As if the news weren’t bad enough, ...

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 most recent scores of eighth graders on national tests of U.S. history, geography and civics show students’ command of those subjects haven’t increased since the tests, part of a suite of exams ...

When Starbucks closes 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday, the coffee chain’s employees will receive a day of anti-bias training. Though this is just one day — and, as many have argued, a single day ...

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 ...

Map of the value of cities increased by manufacturing (all images courtesy Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab) Back in 1932, a naval ...

Cornell's journal Indonesia is devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's cultures, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and ...

Eighth graders’ grasp of key topics in history have plummeted, national test scores released this morning show—an alarming result at a time of deep political polarization, economic uncertainty, and ...

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.” ...