Review: We can map that: Newberry Library exhibits 500-plus years of borders, folds and graticules

From maps that become art to a rack of Rand McNally road maps, straight out of gas stations of yore, “Mapping Outside the ...

The greatest library in the world was built by this ruthless king

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...