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Virginia Maps #3 and #4
From Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1911); and Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1888) This is one in a series… Read More»
Virginia Map #3
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this Map of the western parts of the colony of Virginia, as far as the Mississip[p]i, was created by George Washington in… Read More»
Map of the Day
This interactive battles and casualties map of the Civil War was created by the Washington Post. That’s a screen shot above; you’ll have to go to the site to play… Read More»
Map of the Day
Die Neuwen Inseln, So Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient Bey Dem Land India Ligen (The New Islands Lie Beyond Spain Towards the Orient near India) by Sebastian Münster (1489–1552), ca. 1550 (Library of… Read More»
Map of the Day
Speaking, as we were, of the Peninsula Campaign and the difficulty of commemorating it, I offer up this lovely map of Harrison’s Landing, on the James River, by Robert Knox… Read More»
I Once Was Lost … (Cont’d)
Actually, rather than ask Jim Horn what happened to the Lost Colonists of Roanoke, we should ask Neil Gaiman. In Marvel 1602, his series published in 2003–2004, he posits that… Read More»
I Once Was Lost …
Experts from the First Colony Foundation (they study the Roanoke colonies) and the British Museum in London (they own John White‘s drawings and maps, like the one above) issued a statement… Read More»
An Appomattox Album
Appomattox Court House, Spring by William Blake (Appomattox Court House National Historical Park) Appomattox Court House, Va., date and creator unknown (Library of Congress) This hand-drawn map shows… Read More»
Fun with Maps, Cont’d
In an earlier post, the folks at the David Rumsey Map Collection showed off a selection of maps as time lines. So let’s riff on that theme—maps as symbols of… Read More»
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