Michael Blanding is the author of The Map Thief ... to claim U.S. territory as far as the Pacific since “part of this territory unquestionably belongs to the United States.” ...

The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860 ... the technique is useful for understanding history in our own day. One of the fundamental ...

Prior to this, he studied History and English ... but from which states hail the most American leaders? Newsweek has mapped the birth states of all of them. The U.S. has seen 45 presidents ...

It was also common for earlier iterations of U.S. maps to ignore former territories ... Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what lies beyond the mainland.

For one thing, the maps distort the influence of large, sparsely populated states, says Andy Woodruff ... The work above is the oldest known map of a U.S. presidential election, according to ...