Reading time: 2 minutes Librarians Karen Kadohiro Lauer, Patricia Polansky and Monica Ghosh view the castaway map. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library has been actively acquiring rare and ...

It’s not every day that a cache of historic maps of Texas and the Western Hemisphere — appraised at $3.5 million — passes from private to public hands. That’s what happened recently: After years of ...