children’s maps Posts

How Emma Willard Mapped Time in the Nineteenth Century

This week I had the privilege of posting a story for the Public Domain Review on Emma Willard, one of the most influential educators in the nineteenth century. For decades,...

January 31, 2020 | 19th-century images, children's maps, graphs and timelines | 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 »

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University

On April 20 I was privileged to be one of the speakers to open the David Rumsey Map Center in the Green Library at Stanford. The facility is fantastic —...

May 02, 2016 | 19th-century images, children's maps | Read More »

New exhibit of pictorial maps!

This week the University of Denver will open an exhibit of pictorial maps drawn from the private collection of Wes Brown. The exhibit is curated by Rebecca Macey, and located in...

April 03, 2015 | 20th-century images, art and cartography, children's maps, Colorado maps, imaginary maps, pictorial maps | Read More »

Schoolgirl maps from the early republic

I’ve been preoccupied lately with student manuscript maps, generally made by girls between 11 and 18 attending one of the many female academies of the American northeast between 1800 and 1830. “Map...

September 23, 2014 | 19th-century images, art and cartography, children's maps | Read More »