{"id":18032,"date":"2016-05-20T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18032"},"modified":"2016-05-20T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:21:24","slug":"friday-fun-historical-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18032","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Historical Atlases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some fun for history and map buffs: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsl.richmond.edu\/panorama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>American Panorama: An atlas of United States history<\/strong><\/a>, is an ongoing project at the University of Richmond that currently offers maps of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The forced migration of enslaved people, 1810-1860<\/li>\n<li>The overland trails, 1840-1860<\/li>\n<li>Foreign-born population, 1850-2010, and<\/li>\n<li>Canals, 1820-1860<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also links to a digital edition of the 1932 <a href=\"http:\/\/dsl.richmond.edu\/historicalatlas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States<\/em><\/a>, but some of it has been enhanced, e.g.,  &#8220;animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data.&#8221; This resource provides nearly 700 maps to enjoy! Use the table of contents to browse the 14 chapters in the atlas and make selections of maps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/1890coll.jpg\" alt=\"excerpt of screenshot from digitized 1932 atlas showing Wisconsin and Minnesota college and university locations\" class=\"alignright\" \/> For example, choose &#8220;Colleges, Universities, and Churches, 1775-1890&#8221; and then &#8220;Colleges and Universities&#8221; in 1775, then click on &#8220;Animate&#8221; in the lower left corner to watch the change in the number and geographical distribution of schools over time. But wait! Where&#8217;s UW-Whitewater on the 1890 map?? Click &#8220;text&#8221; in the upper right corner to read information about what institutions were excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Want more? <strong>Andersen Library has lots of historical atlases<\/strong>, some with special subject emphases! Search <a href=\"http:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/dlSearch.do?vid=WW&#038;institution=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY\" target=\"_blank\">Books, media and more (UW-Whitewater)<\/a> to find gems like <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71325024900002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Geographic historical atlas of the United States<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor OVERSIZE, G1201.S1 F5 2004),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71287909100002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlas for the American Civil War<\/em><\/a> (3rd-Floor OVERSIZE, G1201 .S5 A8 1986),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71316709610002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Routledge historical atlas of women in America<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Ref Coll, HQ1410 .P68 2000),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71294200080002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Disease and medical care in the United States: A medical atlas of the twentieth century<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor OVERSIZE, RA804 .S54 1993),<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71345210120002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Historical atlas of the North American railroad<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor OVERSIZE, HE2751 .H39 2010), and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71316393430002121\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New historical atlas of religion in America<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor OVERSIZE, G1201.E4 N4 2001).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some fun for history and map buffs: American Panorama: An atlas of United States history, is an ongoing project at the University of Richmond that currently offers maps of The forced migration of enslaved people, 1810-1860 The overland trails, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[110718,110717,220,231,922,658],"class_list":["post-18032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-the-library","tag-atlases","tag-cartography","tag-fun-stuff","tag-history","tag-maps","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18040,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions\/18040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}