Disneyland could have had a Robin Hood Castle, Pleasure Island, archery range, ghost town and little church if initial plans dreamed up in the early 1950s by Walt Disney and his artists for the ...

You never know what treasures might be hiding in your attic, but if you’ve got a few vintage maps stashed in there, you may have struck gold. From early maps of America to ultra-rare railroad and ...

Work on the first atlas was started in 1473 and finally published in 1478. There are very few surviving examples of this atlas (One is preserved in the Karpeles Manuscript Library). A crude copy of ...

A Dix Hills library is highlighting Long Island’s history by using maps. “The Iconic Fish: Early Maps of Long Island” opened earlier this month at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library, in ...

There's an oft-repeated Disneyland creation myth: Artist and animation art director Herb Ryman was given 48 hours to draw an early, heavily detailed and romanticized map of the theme park, which would ...

Let’s face it. Paper maps are a bit out of fashion now that we have smartphones. But old world maps and atlases are chock-full of history, of once-uncharted territories — and if you zoom close, “sea ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore talked about different examples of historic interpretations of the world. She explored various examples of maps ...