Buckle up: We’re about to take an etymological road trip across the country, tackling the origins of all 50 state names (and Washington, D.C.) in alphabetical order. Are Georgia the state and ...

If you want to understand a state's history, start by looking at its name. The map below shows the breakdown of all the states' etymologies. The most names, eight in both cases, stem from ...

There are some longtime favorites, and a few new additions, in the rankings of America's most popular baby names.

They've created an Atlas Of True Names that deconstructs all the ordinary place names and ... Hormes and Peust caution that readers should accept their map "just as an invitation to the world ...