IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Frederick de Wit's decorative map, ...

Costa Rica is a small but stunning country in Central America, located between Nicaragua (north) and Panama (south). It is unique because it borders both the Pacific Ocean (west) and the Caribbean Sea ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...