Archive for July, 2012

Private Sneden maps the Civil War

I have a piece in today’s “Disunion” blog at the Times on Private Robert Knox Sneden, a soldier with artistic talents who was attached to the Third Corps of the Army of the...

July 31, 2012 | 19th-century images, Civil War maps, environmental maps, pictorial maps | Read More »

New exhibit of thematic maps

John Delaney, a curator of the Historic Maps Collection at Princeton University Library, has created an excellent online exhibit of thematic maps (it may take a minute to load). In...

July 19, 2012 | 19th-century images, thematic maps | Read More »

Charting the flow of political power

Timelines were very popular in the nineteenth century, in classrooms as well as living rooms. An intriguing example is this “Conspectus of the History of Political Parties” (1880). Created just...

July 05, 2012 | 19th-century images, graphs and timelines | Read More »