AMHERST — Classrooms in Boston’s public schools will soon be using world maps that show land masses of correct size, supplementing what school officials view as traditional, Eurocentric centuries-old ...

When I’m stuck at home, I spend a great deal of time looking at maps, plotting my next move, imagining trips I will never take, rediscovering the location of the Caspian Sea or just admiring the ...

Forty years ago, a German historian named Arno Peters published a world map that he described as a rebuttal to four centuries of faulty cartographic thinking. Peters believed that too much modern ...

Picture a wall-size world map. What do you see? What you are imagining is most likely not the type of map going into Boston Public Schools Thursday. Social studies teachers in the second, seventh and ...