Regional identities and their statistics do not always neatly align. This is especially true in the mid-Atlantic and northeast United States, where regions frequently overlap jurisdictions. New York ...

Years ago, I found a book that redrew the map of our country as if the states had been defined by geography and culture rather than politics. I haven't been able to re-find the volume, yet the notion ...

Years after a life-changing first visit, National Geographic photographer Pete Muller returns to explore the places—and people—forged by nature.