How the U.S. is divided politically and what happens to the states caught in the middle.
The division of labor and how it shapes U.S. states and cities.
Rural cultures clashed and shaped states.
War is needed to close a divide in the country.
The future of the conquered American West.
Unique American values that make up the nation; how the map has shaped Americans.
A mistake made by the Founding Fathers affects the Georgia-Tennessee border; why Maine has so much water.
Why Chicago could have been in Wisconsin; why are states out West so big and boxy; Forgottonia.
How an asteroid created the border for three states; how glaciers that plowed the Great Plains altered the map.
Why Montana looks like it took a bite out of Idaho; why Texas was broken up into five states; why are there two Carolinas.
Behind blank spots like Area 51; what possessed the citizens of Key West to secede from Florida; old missile bunkers turned into dream homes; a county that was left off Georgia's quarter.
If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong.
Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?; how religion shattered New England into little shapes; the Civil War's origin in Kansas.
How Green Bay helped carve the border with Canada; what football has to do with fur; is North Carolina the real Golden State; why everyone should move to North Dakota.
World War II preserves the shape of California; part of Maine becomes northern Massachusetts; Florida's cowboy tradition.