Diagonals, Vistas, and Canals: Tracing L’Enfant’s Influences Beyond D.C. (Sep 30, 2025 12:47)
Pierre Charles L’Enfant did not design Washington in a vacuum. A unique city within Ame...
The “Gem of the Caribbean”: a U.S. colony in…Cuba? (Sep 26, 2025 09:22)
At the dawn of the 20th century, hundreds of U.S. citizens dreamed of starting a new li...
The Harlem Hellfighters Win Gold: The 369th Infantry Regiment in World War I (Sep 17, 2025 10:44)
The Harlem Hellfighters, an African-American regiment of the US Army, recently received...
The Long and Winding Road to Vladivostok: The Trans-Siberian Railway and the World (Sep 10, 2025 11:48)
This is a guest post written by G&M summer intern, Elizabeth Dorokhina. This post e...
In-Person Geography and Map Event: The Map Mixer (Sep 3, 2025 06:07)
An event announcement from the Library of Congress’s Geography & Map Division and t...
Maps on Fabric: A Selection of Textile Cartography (Aug 27, 2025 06:37)
The Library of Congress holds an extensive collection of maps that have been printed, d...
Exploring Maps of the Revolutionary War Battle of Camden (Aug 21, 2025 10:59)
Taking place 245 years ago this month, the Battle of Camden was a pivotal moment in the...
Parsing the Palouse: A Look into the Wind-Shaped Hills of the Pacific Northwest (Aug 15, 2025 09:34)
North of the Snake River in southeast Washington State sits the Palouse: a region of ro...
Pre-Satellite Maps of the Sundarbans Delta: An Interview with a Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellow (Aug 8, 2025 03:29)
Interview with Dr. Shouraseni Sen Roy, the Geography and Map Division's latest Phillip ...
Mapping the Deep: Marie Tharp’s Physiographic Diagram of the Atlantic Ocean (Jul 31, 2025 07:28)
This blog post discusses the project done this summer during a Junior Fellowship at the...