A History of America in 100 Maps
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A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN I 00 MAPS Susan Schulten THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS ...
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Text © 2018 by Susan Schulten Images © The British Library Board and other named ...
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Edward Savage’s portrait of President George Washington and the first family gathered around a map of the proposed national capi ...
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8 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In November 1864 General William Sherman began the most audacious campaign of the Civil War. ...
INTRODUCTION 9 on paper long before any real control was exercised on the ground. The map is also evidence that while the Revolu ...
A mong the most enduring myths of American history is that in 1492 Christopher Columbus reached a land that was sparsely populat ...
classical geographer Claudius Ptolemy alongside the living explorer Vespucci. Within a few decades it became clear that what lay ...
12 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Generations of school children learned that “In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed ...
CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 13 This manuscript world map was printed and distributed by Francisco Rosselli, and became a standard view ...
14 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Imagine you were living in Europe around 1500. The voyages of discovery that began with Colu ...
CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 15 from east to west, and identified these as the “islands that Master Christopher Columbus discovered.” A ...
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CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 17 If the previous map leaves us searching for any sign of the western hemisphere, here and on the followi ...
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Introduction: Seeing the Past Through Maps 1490 – 1600: Contact and Discovery 1600–1700: Early Settlement and the Northwe ...
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