Outside the Washington Heights branch of the Public Library in Manhattan stands a metal post topped with an unassuming blue ...

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WASHINGTON DC: In line with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump, Google Maps will soon update the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” for users in the United States.

Researchers analyzed thousands of ancient artifacts to track native American population changes in North America before ...

A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert ...

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...

as the map below shows. Strikingly, nearly all of those countries recognizing unrestricted birthright citizenship are in the Western Hemisphere, in North, South, and Central America. The vast ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them are in the Western Hemisphere. The reason is more complicated than you might ...

Google has said it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app, complying with executive orders by ...

The change in name will only appear for Google Maps users in the US. Google also said its US app users would see North America's highest mountain, Mount Denali, revert to its previous name of ...