At one point the Gulf of Mexico was called the Gulf of New Spain, and Mexico was referred to by the Spanish as New Spain.

“Because it is international territory, his options are solely performative ones,” said Jack Davis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.

Gone is the 484-year-old moniker first penned by an unknown cartographer who called it Seno de Mejicano, or the Mexican Gulf, ...

Story by Jack Davis • 1d W ith a gulf of words separating the United States and Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is asking Google to do something about it.

authors Jeffrey Abramson and Jack E. Davis argue in a piece published at the Guardian Wednesday. When the Associated Press continued to use the term "Gulf of Mexico," the Trump administration ...

Gone is the 484-year-old moniker first penned by an unknown cartographer who called it Seno de Mejicano, or the Mexican Gulf, ...