John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essays have been appearing steadily over the past decade, addressing music, politics and other arteries of American popular culture. A new collection, “Pulphead,” features 14 ...

Nicholas Jon Crane is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies. Crane teaches courses in cultural and political geography, with foci on the Americas and the Middle East. Crane’s ...

The very concept of the Anthropocene suggests that humans are actively shaping the planet in ways that will resonate through geologic time. But how has the planet—in this case, geography—shaped human ...

This piece reflects on the contemporary resonances, value and legacy of Cosgrove and Jackson's (1987) Area paper entitled 'New directions in cultural geography' (Area, 19, 95–101). It argues that much ...

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

Mesopotamian clay maps, dating back 5,000 years, provide a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world’s perception of geography, particularly its rivers. These clay tablets not only depict the ...

Culture can shape how we learn, according to a study by Japanese and English researchers, published online on May 4, 2012, in the journal Cognition [1]. Do people with different cultural backgrounds ...

Geography is a function of time as much as location. Even static-seeming places such as deserts or small towns are constantly in flux. How to depict that change, and in doing so convey the forces ...

That short video from the food magazine Saveur makes me excited for spring’s arrival here in south Louisiana, because it means good food from the garden is coming soon. We bought a house last summer ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS, coming in ...

Culture can shape how we learn, according to a study by Japanese and English researchers, published online on May 4, 2012, in the journal Cognition [1]. Do people with different cultural backgrounds ...