What’s in a name? How much does changing the name of a body of water really matter? These are the questions that irked U.S.-based cartographer Michael Hermann when President Donald Trump renamed the ...

Unlike renaming Alaska’s tallest mountain Mount McKinley, resuscitating a name bestowed by the federal government in 1917, Gulf of America is not “restoring” a name to the body of water. Far from it, ...

Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who ...

Davis will be the keynote speaker at the Florida Humanities Festival in Sarasota on March 22 where he will talk about the history and the culture of the Florida Suncoast. Davis will be the keynote ...

TALLAHASSEE — Erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials won Florida House approval Thursday. The Republican-controlled House passed two bills along party lines to carry out ...

Florida officially recognized "Gulf of America" as the name for the former Gulf of Mexico in state law and public school textbooks. The change follows a federal executive order by President Trump and ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...

President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on his first day back in the White House. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the ...