Pt. I. The cartographic record. Where we are and how we got there : surveying the record of exploration studies / John L. Allen ; A new mode of thinking : creating a national geography in the early ...

Fifty years into the American experiment, in 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah attempted to build a Jewish homeland in upstate New York. The journalist, playwright and former diplomat hoped that a gathering ...

Long before there was ancestry.com, there were samplers. “Genealogical samplers recording births, marriages and deaths became popular around 1790,” explains a placard accompanying the new exhibition ...