{"id":546,"date":"2014-02-24T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=546"},"modified":"2014-02-24T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:09:00","slug":"atlas-of-the-week-national-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2014\/02\/24\/atlas-of-the-week-national-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week: National Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img2.imagesbn.com\/p\/9780792261315_p0_v2_s260x420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.imagesbn.com\/p\/9780792261315_p0_v2_s260x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States provides a very focused set of maps and articles on the history of\u00a0 the United States of America, from discovery to present.<sup>1<\/sup> It accounts for over 500 years of American history: mapping the Native American territories, tracing the paths of the Underground Railroad, and concluding in the United States\u2019 relations with other countries. Peering into the articles, maps, and pictures, the reader can sense how the narrative feels like a \u201ccampfire setting\u201d of patriotic storytelling. It demonstrates the laborious progression of America\u2019s establishment in the world to its powerful position as a global leader. As this atlas takes us on a nostalgic walk through history, it clearly displays what Susan Schulten explains is the purpose of such atlases: \u201cnot to explore the nuances of geography, but to document the evolution of the nation as a sovereign territory\u201d.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>National Geographic. Society \u00a0<em>Historical Atlas of the United States<\/em>. Washington D. C.: National Geographic Society, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Schulten, Susan. \u201cThe Graphic Foundation of American History\u201d in <em>Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century<\/em> [11-40]. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States provides a very focused set of maps and articles on the history of\u00a0 the United States of America, from discovery to present.1 It accounts for over 500 years of American history: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2014\/02\/24\/atlas-of-the-week-national-geography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}