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Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

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.

US users of Google and Apple maps will now see Trump’s preferred name for the body of water that the country shares with ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the ...

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 ...

On US versions of Google Maps, The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed ... Clouds partially obscure Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America which has been renamed by President Trump.