Now and then, from authorities like Arnold Guyot or George P. Marsh (not to name any one living), the most glowing commendation of such studies will be heard, but oftener, expressions like those of ...

Do you know who is called the father of geography? Find out how Eratosthenes measured the Earth's circumference and created ...

Geographers at the University of Nevada Reno employ innovative techniques and methods to examine the complex relationship between humans and their environment and the spatial dimensions of our world’s ...

Back when I was in college, c. 1970, I took an excellent course in geography. There was no hint of political ideology. Of course, things have changed a lot since then. The left’s long march through ...

Professor Davis gave the third and last of his lectures on the Teaching of Geography, in the Geological lecture room yesterday afternoon. In his first lecture Professor Davis spoke especially of the ...

Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world Humans ...

Rick: Ashley, do students need to learn “mere facts”? Twenty years ago, in a 2006 TIME Magazine cover story on “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20 th Century,” the then-dean of Stanford University ...

The Department of Geography offers many classes that apply to the ENVS major. In addition, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a valuable complement to the ENVS major. ENVS students would be well ...

This week’s question is: What are creative ways to teach geography? Geography is included among the many different classes I teach each year, so I’m always interested in learning about creative ...

The state Board of Education is accepting comments on the Tennessee K-12 social studies standards that are being revised. An Oct. 23 guest column by Daniel Feller and Ernest Freeberg rightly argues ...