Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

If World War I is synonymous with one thing it is trenches. On the Western Front alone the trench line stretched nearly 500 miles from the shores of the North Sea in Belgium to neutral Switzerland to ...

Next month, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale T.E. Lawrence’s hand-drawn, annotated map of northern Arabia, detailing the route he followed in the days preceding the capture of the Red Sea port of ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...

ISTANBUL – The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign, where throngs gather each April to remember the fallen, is a place of lore, an echo of ancient warfare that took place on the same ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An exhibit about World War I trench maps has opened at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. The State newspaper reported (https://bit.ly/1FrgYZ9) that 19 original ...

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. In the 1910s, promoters of the ...

There are few images of the top-secret map room. This one, taken at the end of WWII, shows Army Chief Warrant Officer Albert Cornelius standing before a map of Europe. Flickr/FDR Presidential Library ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1914, English cartographer John G. Bartholomew created an isochronic map, a map that shows all points that are accessible in the same amount of time. Ships and ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...