Mark Twain (who emerged as a writer during the Civil War) said “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Some Americans anyway may learn geography from war, but not all. An American ...

Lucretius may as well have said of geography, as he did of nature, that if you throw it out the door it will just come flying back in through the window. Recent events only confirm that insight: as ...

In 2023 the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability (SEGS) was formed from the consolidation of four existing programs (the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department ...

The shape of Maine is nothing if not peculiar. Quite unlike, say, the perfect rectangles of Wyoming and Colorado, Maine flouts geometric sensibility, from its craggy coastline to the great span of its ...