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Remapping world history--Geology professor Mark McMenamin's theory that Carthaginian coins may reveal that those seafaring traders may have visited the Americas as early as 350 bc is the subject of a cover story in the May/June Mercator's World, The Magazine of Maps, Atlases, Globes, and Charts. If McMenamin is right that these coins contain--in previously unexplained markings--representations of maps, then McMenamin will have found the oldest existing maps of the world. His theory has generated controversy among classical scholars and cartographers and has prompted interest by officials from modern-day Tunisia. The May/June piece is the first in a two part series.

Tending the family roots--Margaret Woodbury '58 is not only a doctor and past president of the Alumnae Association; now she's an author. Virginia Kaleidoscope, a 573-page book Woodbury and her sister Ruth C. Marsh wrote over the past two decades, traces their family history back several generations. According to an article in the Springfield Union-News, "It's a story about one African American family and it's also a story about America. It follows the trail [of Woodbury's parents] to the first families of the colony of Virginia. The landscape along that trail is one of slavery and freedom, of books and careers, of cousins and children."