Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

"A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History).

In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to ass...