Looking at this peaceful, productive view, you would never imagine that Barbados had recently been hit by a devastating hurricane that reduced the machinery of the booming sugar industry to smithereens and threatened to overturn the island’s slaveholding society.

Sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation A delicately woven ivory silk map, embroidered in the first years of the nineteenth century, […]

Why are early Americanists so obsessed with region—with geography, in short—rather than with chronology?

The ways that maps and boundaries failed to match actual landforms often had momentous historical consequences

Cholera maps chart the movement of the disease, and the terror that accompanied it.

In Abolitionist Geographies Martha Schoolman challenges the dominant maps of nineteenth-century American literary studies.

When did the United States become a global force? A digital history project creates a space for answering this question.

What role did trade play in connecting South Carolina to the greater Southeast? How were these economic exchanges understood and depicted? What type of information did trade offer the English? How were those far-reaching networks regulated?

At first glance the map may not seem like the work of one of the best-informed Frenchmen in colonial Louisiana…

There is an interesting map up at Newsweek‘s web site illustrating what the magazine calls “a surprising correlation between the […]

Two inches wide and eleven feet long, it mapped, among other things, a reunited nation.

Presented as part of the special issue “Early Cities of the Americas.”

“Complete atlases were scanned, as were covers for pocket maps, puzzles, and their cases. Folding globes were shown compressed and then opened, and maps were shown enclosed within books.”

Presented as part of the Special Issue: Pacific Routes

[I]n the days when wind and sail provided the fastest means of travel, when continental and global circumnavigations lay far in the future, there was no obvious way to test whether widely separated seas, such as those that lay off the Arabian Peninsula and those of the Mediterranean, were in any way contiguous.

May 27, 2008 Are You Smarter Than an Eighth Grader? No, you’re not. Here are the questions Isaac had to […]

Colonial newspapers generally located maps with goods that in turn were associated with literacy and refinement, in particular with interior decoration and visual culture.

The Common-place Web Library reviews and lists online resources and Websites likely to be of interest to our viewers. Each […]

My students and I had fun discussing political geography today.  For instance, take a look at these two maps side […]

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