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Chloe Effron

While the United States population has become less religious in recent years, the overwhelming majority of Americans still identify as Protestant or Catholic.

Jocelyn Sears
Library of Congress

In the early days of mapmaking, plotting out the world was no easy task. It's not surprising that cartographers got some things wrong (it's probably more surprising how much they got right). One of the most widespread misconceptions in the 16th Century in

Erin McCarthy