Some of the earliest surviving dissected maps, made in London in the 1760s, were sold by London mapmaker John Spilsbury. Spilsbury affixed paper to wooden boards and cut his puzzles into pieces ...

A Playskool jigsaw puzzle map of the United States. CBS News Soon, puzzles expanded their reach beyond learning, with puzzles depicting nursery rhymes and fairytale subjects, ships and trains.

With “States,” the teacher is Brian Unger, and he really is all over the map. Each episode, which started a 10-week run May 3, looks at how states’ boundaries came to be.

"Dissected map of the United States," 1900 "Europe according to the best authorities," 1810 "Wallis's new dissected map of America, engraved from the latest authorities for use of young students ...

Yet only 17 states require geography be taught in middle- or high school. Iowa is not among them. Though a dedicated geography class may not be prudent, geographic lessons can be incorporated into ...

We'll admit it: We're suckers for ways to reimagine the political boundaries of the United States. Below, we have a four-decade-old attempt from California State University geography professor C ...

In 2008, Imus dove head first into the creation of a general map of the entire United States. The work ballooned into the most grueling, demanding project of his entire career. It took 6,000 hours ...

River basin map of the contiguous United States Grasshopper Geography A rainbow of tiny furrows spreads across a map of the contiguous United States, the lite-brite hues popping against a black ...