Mapping our Past is perfect for map enthus iasts\, history buffs\, lifelong learners\, and students curious about how maps shape our understanding of the past.
\nOver five hundred years \, America has been defined through maps. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy \, tools of statecraft\, instruments of social reform\, or tools of persua sion\, these sources record efforts to make sense of the world. They inves t information with meaning by translating it into visual form\, and in the process reflect decisions about how the world ought to be seen. Join us a s Susan Schulten explores some of the maps that have shaped the history of North America\, particularly the Southeast and Florida. From the age of e xploration down to our own day\, these sources remind us that the past is not just a chronological story\, but also a spatial one.
\nS usan Schulten is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver\, where she has taught since 1996. This past yea r She served as the Colorado State Historian\, in a year marking 150 years of Colorado Statehood and 250 years of American independence. \;Schul ten is the author of several books that use old maps to tell new stories a bout American history\, including \;A History of America in 100 Maps&n bsp\;(2018)\, \;Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Ninetee nth-Century America \;(2012)\, and \;The Geographical Imagination in America\, 1880-1950 \;(2012)\, all published with the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent book is \;Emma Willard: Maps of Histor y \;(2022). She has also co-authored a two-volume history of America w ith Elliott Gorn entitled \;Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebo ok of a People&rsquo\;s History (9th \;edition\, 2024) with Oxford Uni versity Press. Her work has been funded by the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Mellon Foundation. She is now writing a book about one of the most influential mapmakers of the twe ntieth century\, Richard Edes Harrison. This year Professor Schulten&rsquo \;s courses include Understanding Lincoln\, the \;Civil War and Recons truction\, War and the Presidency\, American Thought and Culture\, and Nin eteenth-Century America.
\nMapping Our Past is made possible through the generosity of the Lewis and Sybil Ansbacher Family Foundation and the Jordan and Shirley Ansbacher Family Foundation through the Librar y Foundation of Jacksonville. \;
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