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Susan Schulten

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The Presidential Transition That Shattered America

A Trump-Biden transition is sure to be scary. But it’d be hard to beat Buchanan-Lincoln.

by Rebecca Onion, Susan Schulten via Slate on October 28, 2020
Emma Willard's Maps of Time

The pioneering work of Emma Willard, a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.

by Susan Schulten via The Public Domain Review on January 22, 2020
How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.

by Susan Schulten via Process: A Blog for American History on September 13, 2018
This 19th Century Map Could Have Transformed the West

According to John Wesley Powell, outside of the Pacific Northwest, the arid lands of the west could not be farmed without irrigation.

by Susan Schulten via The New Republic on June 9, 2014

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In Its First Decades, The United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers

Education for women and emerging nationhood, illustrated with care and charm.

by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on November 28, 2018

These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor.

by Lincoln Mullen via Smithsonian on May 15, 2014

America’s First Female Mapmaker

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.

by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 18, 2018

How Women Mapped the Upheaval of 19th Century America

The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.

by Laura Bliss via CityLab on March 23, 2016

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