The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Inuit hunter Silas Sandgreen ...

SEATTLE — There's something exciting about a paper map. Even if they are hard to fold. Tom Helleberg, publisher of Mountaineers Books sums it up: "A good friend told me every great adventure starts ...

The latest issue of Humboldt Geographic gathers a decade of maps and stories from Cal Poly Humboldt cartography students, inviting readers to see maps not only as navigational tools but as narrative ...

Geoff McGhee is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, ...