The World Needs More Foldout Maps
The other day, at a library book sale, I bought a couple cloth-bound volumes from the Army Center for Military History "Green Book" series. I was mainly interested in the…
Jacques Redway on the History of European Discovery
Another piece in the puzzle of Jacques Redway and his desire for better maps. This series of maps is obviously problematic in terms of its Eurocentric notion of “discovering” and…
Fresh Look at Willard and Woodbridge
Source: Emma Hart Willard and William C. Woodbridge, Modern School Geography, 1844. I was looking at my 1844 copy of Woodbridge and Willard and noticed a couple of diagrams I…
Profile of the North Atlantic (1885)
Source: James Monteith, New Physical Geography, 1885 Monteith, like so many of his contemporaries, made frequent use of terrain profiles of cross sections. Monteith, in particular, included many profiles of…