Place names affect how people perceive, experience and emotionally connect to their surroundings in both conscious and subconscious ways. Psychologists, sociologists and geographers have explored how ...

Class, Japan has the Lexus LS, Sweden has the Volvo S90, and we Americans have luxury full-size SUVs. Specifically, the GMC ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

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“The name Denali has been official for use by the State of Alaska ... As for all the people and companies in the world that make maps, they usually use the official names. But there is nothing that ...

If you're using Google Maps in the United States, you may have noticed some recent changes to your world. The "Gulf of Mexico ...

If you walk out to the end of the Canandaigua City Pier you will see a tiny island off to the right. In 1779 the island was bigger, nearly two ...

It was a curious sight: five or six glassy-eyed people staring back from the laptop screen, yawning in tandem on a Zoom call each week, learning how to sleep. The course of group cognitive ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women took their first steps in a historic feat. Led by Alaskan Grace Hoeman and ...

Cassidy Randall is the author of “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali.” In 1896, a gold prospector named William Dickey led a journey ...