Given this truism, it's no wonder that the populations of America's so-called superstar cities have stagnated while the Sun Belt's metropolitan areas have boomed. When a city — or, as in the ...

The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America by an American was ... the 18th century," says Edward Redmond, the library's curator of geography and maps. In a flourish, Buell ...

Fascinating maps based on pre-Civil War census data clearly show the spread of enslaved workers as agriculture pushed ever west The maps use dating stretching as far back as the first U.S. census ...