I am an atmospheric scientist with three degrees in meteorology. However my tenured home at the University of Georgia is the Department of Geography. Like many of you reading this, I had a rather ...

If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books ...

High above Wyoming, in the belly of a Boeing jet, my husband was making a map of Montana out of two cocktail napkins. "This," he said, pointing to the napkin on the right side of his drop-down tray, ...