272 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS
Tuskegee Institute 199
Twain, Mark 170
Tyler, John 134
typhoid 183
typhus 183
Tyson Foods 252, 253
“Under a Black Cloud!” 158–9
unemployment 168, 177
Union Army 8, 125, 142, 164
Union Pacific railroad 158, 160, 164
unionization 252
United Air Lines 220
United Nations 236
United States of America
Army 2–3, 208, 216–17
83rd Infantry 213
Map Service 218
Nineteenth Corps 213
boundaries of 97
Communist Party 224
entry into World War I 204
entry into World War II 210
foreign policy 205
Geological Survey 163, 220
Navy 204, 208
relations with Soviet Union 205
Upper California 134
Upper Midwest 46, 138, 185
US Coast Survey, Map Showing the
Distribution of the Slave Population 142, 143
US Information Agency (USIA), “Aggression
from the North” (poster) 238, 239
Utah (Deseret) 8, 124, 133, 134, 163, 164, 175,
192
Ute people 8, 88
Utrecht, Treaty of 66, 68, 94
vaccination 183
Valley Forge 199
Van Duzer, Chet 13
Venango 84
Venice 14
Senate 26
Verghese, Abraham 233
Verghese, Abraham, Steven L. Berk and Felix
Sarubbi, HIV infection across the US, and
around Johnson City,Tennessee 246, 247,
248
Vermont 46, 64, 108, 118, 148, 168
map for blind people 128, 129
Verrazzano, Giovanni da 24
Vespucci, Amerigo 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 21
Victory Through Air Power 226
Vienna 217
Viet Cong 238
Vietnam
North 238, 241
South 238, 241
Vietnam War 238, 241, 244
anti-war movement 241
“Vietnamization” 241
Villard, Henry 158
Virginia
coal production 152–4, 155
and Fort Sumter rebellion 142
General Assembly 50
geological map 150, 152–3, 152–3
Piedmont and Tidewater regions 152
river system 80
Shenandoah Valley 152
University of 152
Virginia Colony 36–8, 41, 45, 50
Virginia Company 35, 36, 41, 45
The Virginias (mining journal) 153
Volkswagen Beetle 229
Volta River 50
Voorhies, Stephen, “Raw Materials for a U.S.
‘Ruhr’” 202, 203
Voting Rights Act (VRA, 1965) 175, 233, 254
Waldburg-Wolfegg, Prince 17
Waldseemüller, Martin 10–11, 13, 15, 21
“Universalis Cosmographia” 16 , 17, 18–19
Wales, miners 185
Wallingford, Daniel 177
“Architectural Manhattan” 192
“A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States of
America” 192, 192–3
Walter, Francis 224–5
Soviet Total War 225
Wampanoag Indians 35, 54War of 1812 99, 116, 118, 120, 122
War Department 124, 130
War Powers Act (1973) 241
Ward, Julia, “Battle Hymn of the Republic” 128
Washington, George 6–7, 64, 65, 84, 88, 91,
92, 102, 106, 116
“A map of the country between Will’s Creek
and Lake Erie ...” 84, 84–5
birthday 98
Washington (state) 250
Washington Territory 150, 158, 159
Washington, DC 6–7, 98, 107 , 206, 230, 234
as free territory 141
as national capital 106, 108
Pennsylvania Avenue 106
White House 125
water management 163, 186–7, 186–7
WED Enterprises 226
Wegener, Alfred 242
welfare state 177
West Africa 35, 50, 50–1, 74, 74–5
West Indies 15, 76
West Point 130
West Virginia
coal production 152–4, 153, 155
formation of 152
railroads 153
Western Front 178
whaling 105
Whig Party 124, 140
White League 148
White Mountains 186
Whitney, Eli 124
Whitton, Rex 229
Whole Earth Catalog 244
Wiener Neustadt 217
Wilderness Road 102
Wilkes, Charles 115
Williamsburg 84, 92
Willkie, Wendell 202
Wilson Dam 202
Wilson, Woodrow 9, 170, 176
“Fourteen Points” 176, 204, 210
reluctance to declare war 178, 179, 180
Wiltberger, Charles 9
Wiltberger, Rev. John Christian, “TemperanceMap” 9, 126, 127
Winnipesaukee, Lake 54
Winthrop, John 43
Wisconsin 99, 185
Latino population 252
Wittenberg 213
women
education of 118
Prohibition and 190
as suffragists 151, 175
reformers 166, 188
World Bank 210
World War I 150, 151, 173, 176, 180, 182–3,
192
battlefield cemeteries 213
declaration of 180, 182
and immigration 188
US entry into 204
World War II 2–3, 9, 177, 179, 194, 204–5,
213, 224
aftermath 250
and Cold War 223
and migration 250
US entry into 210
Wounded Knee Massacre 160
Wyoming 133, 175
Yalta Conference 223
Yamasee War 72, 77
yellow fever 172, 183
Yellowstone 192
Yellowstone River 115
York, James, Duke of (later King James II) 52
York River 36, 41, 80, 92
Yorktown, Battle of 65, 92
Yosemite 186
Young, Brigham 134
Yukon 170
Zaffo, George 245
Zimmermann, Gotthelf, “Auswandererkarte
und Wegweiser nach Nordamerika”
[Emigration Map and Guide to North
America”] 138–9, 138–9ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people contributed to this project. Rob Davies
at British Library Publications proposed the idea for the
book, and then worked with me to shape both its arc
and its many details. Sally Nicholls helped me unearth
some of the British Library’s great treasures, while
Jacqueline Harvey, Elizabeth Woabank, and Karin Fremer
each brought patience and skill to the manuscript. Early
encouragement by Christie Henry at the University
of Chicago Press was continued by Mary Laur, Rachel
Kelly, Christine Schwab, and Kristen Raddatz, all of whom
saw this project through to completion.
The University of Denver supported this book from
the outset, and I thank Dean Daniel McIntosh and
Provost Gregg Kvistad in particular for their steadfast
encouragement. The university—as well as a J. B. Harley-
Delmas Fellowship—funded early stages of research in
the British Library. A Public Scholar Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Humanities provided me
with time to complete the manuscript.
While at the British Library, I was aided regularly
by Peter Barber, Ashley Baynton-Williams, and Tom
Harper. Others who kindly advanced my research
include Kristine Krueger at the Fairbanks Center for
Motion Picture Study; John Powell at the Newberry
Library; Ed Redmond at the Library of Congress; Ian
Fowler (formerly) at the Osher Map Library; Maryrose
Grossman at the John F. Kennedy Library; David Long at
the University of Wisconsin; Maxine Raley and Margaret
Adamic at Disney Enterprises; and the able staff of
Penrose Library at the University of Denver.
The community of map scholars, collectors, archivists,
and dealers is an exceedingly gracious one. For their
expertise and guidance, I thank David Rumsey, Abby
Smith Rumsey, Jim Akerman, Barry Ruderman, Michael
Buehler, Henry Taliaferro, Mary Pedley, Wes Brown,
P. J. Mode, Matthew Edney, Mark Monmonier, and
Ralph Ehrenberg. For their help with particular maps I
thank Chet Van Duzer, Rob Nelson, John Cloud, Albert
Theberge, Ronald Eller, David Bosse, Paul Colomy, John
Lindemann, Tom Touchton, Ed Redmond, Wei Luo, KellyMeasom, and those individuals whose work is cited in
the endnotes. My sincere thanks to Samuel Edes Harrison,
who kindly shared the extraordinary maps drawn by his
father, Richard Edes Harrison.
For their ongoing interest in this project I thank Robert
Anderson, Judy Schulten, Jennifer Karas, Ingrid Tague,
Elizabeth Escobedo, Carol Helstosky, Karen Iker, Megan
Bertron, Gregg Kvistad, Andrei Kutateladze, Bin Ramke,
Denise O’Leary, Stalker Henderson, Seth Masket, Rebecca
Chopp, Yasmaine Ford and my colleagues in the history
department at the University of Denver. Ed Ayers shares
my love of old maps, but has taught me just as much about
new frontiers in historical cartography. I owe a special debt
to Elliott Gorn, Tim Spears, and Tim Gilfoyle, longstanding
colleagues whose nuanced understanding of the past
continues to inform my own.
Robert, Sam, and David Anderson have—as always—
been a source of strength, joy, and good humor. I am
equally grateful to the Schulten family—especially Vonnie
and Warren—and dedicate this book to them with love.