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 ...

In the gilded halls of London’s high society and amid the cobblestone streets of 18th-century England, a revolutionary style of dress was taking shape, one that would eventually become the theme of ...

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 ...

It’s all too common to think of geography education as a rote march through cities, countries, borders, mountain ranges, and rivers. But Sarah L. Smiley, an associate professor at Kent State ...

Geography in its broadest sense is concerned with understanding the world and our place within it. But this “world” is not simply given; it is fashioned. This course is fundamentally concerned with ...

Human geography first and foremost involves the study of human beings--more specifically, of the organization of human activity and of spatial patterns as they affect and, in turn, respond to the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From the ArkLaTex to the Ozarks, Arkansans have their regional identities. But two regions -- the Ozarks and Delta -- seem to be more solidified in the Arkansas ethos. Ben Johnson of El Dorado, a ...