Archive for October, 2018

Mapping Magic–and Mayhem–in Jazz Age Harlem

In 2016, the Beinecke Library at Yale University paid $100,000 to add Elmer Simms Campbell’s energetic profile of interwar Harlem to its celebrated collection of black history and culture. The...

October 15, 2018 | 20th-century images, art and cartography, pictorial maps, Uncategorized | Read More »

A History of America in 100 Maps

I’m proud to announce that my new book–A History of America in 100 Maps–is now available in the US! It is co-published by the British Library Press and the University...

October 10, 2018 | 18th-century images, 19th-century images, 20th-century images, 21st-century images, art and cartography, children's maps, Civil War maps, environmental maps, graphs and timelines, imaginary maps, pictorial maps, thematic maps | Read More »