This week’s assignment for History & Cartography was to create, first, a hand-drawn map and, second, a map drawn on a computer. After much indecision, I chose to hand-draw a portion from an 1836 map of the town of San Antonio de
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While I greatly enjoyed Susan Schulten’s article “Mapping American History” in the edited volume Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, I couldn’t help but ask the question “Where are the Spaniards?” in the discussion of 18th and early 19th century maps
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This week’s main reading was Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, which came out of a 2004 conference at the Newberry Library. This volume should be recommended reading for any scholar of history, not just those
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With the permission of Dr. Petrik, instead of using one of the U.S. atlases for my evaluation assignment (directions here), I’m using the Historical Atlas of Central America by Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli, drawn by John V. Cotter. Hall is
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This week’s book, Jeremy Black‘s Maps and History, focuses on the history of, well, the historical atlas. Like the other readings in the class so far, this brought to light the contested nature of maps–in this case, how the genre of historical
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This week’s readings focused on mapping in the Americas, particularly in the time of Contact and European colonization. For me, this was rather appropriate, as my Latin America and the World minor field readings course addressed the topic of Conquest last week.
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For all two of my readers not from class (hi Mom!), I’ve just started a History and Cartography class for the semester. This week’s readings (week 1) focus on the idea of maps as primary sources containing arguments and agendas. Admittedly, in
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