New Link On Spain/US History---maps and lots more

["Joseph Puentes <makas@...>" <makas@...>]

I added #5 to the links section but not any of those on number 25.

joseph


5.  Spain, The United States, and The American Frontier: Historias
Paralelas
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html

Partnering with The National Library of Spain, The Biblioteca
Columbina y
Capitular of Seville, the Library of Congress has developed this fine
collection of primary and secondary historical documents that explore
the
complex and multifaceted history of Spanish expansion into North
America
from Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and across most of what is now
the
modern-day American Southwest all the way north to Alaska. The site
contains
digital versions of numerous texts, maps, manuscripts, and first-hand
accounts composed by different individuals. Some of the highlights
include
"La Florida del Inca," which is an account of the Hernando de Soto
expedition through Florida and the southeastern part of North America,
along
with the "Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth to
San
Diego," published in 1848 as a special report to the United States
Congress.
Appropriately enough, many of the documents are available in both
English
and Spanish, and are searchable by page number. [KMG]

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25. Historic Maps
1. Map Library
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/Atlas%20Page.htm
2. Maps of the Roman Empire
http://www.dalton.org/groups/Rome/RMaps.html
3. History of Cartography
http://feature.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
4. American Memory Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/S?ammem/collections:@field(SUBJ+@1(Geogr
aphy)):heading=Topics%3a+Geography
5. Perry-Casta�±eda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
6. Color Landforms Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
7. Old-maps.co.uk
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
8. Maps and Geography
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html

The first site about historical maps is the US Military Academy at
West
Point's History Department's Map Library (1). The page contains links
to
dozens of maps related to warfare from ancient times, the American
Revolution, and the Napoleonic wars to the World Wars and other modern
conflicts. Although map descriptions are not given and the main page
seemed
to have a problem loading correctly, the site does give a very
interesting
glimpse into the geography and history of conflict. The second
offering is
from The Dalton School called Maps of the Roman Empire (2). Visitors
will
find dozens of interesting maps with titles such as the Roman Empire
circa
120 AD; Trade Routes; 18 Centuries of Roman Empire; and maps of how
the
empire expanded, barbarian migrations, and more. Next, the History of
Cartography (3) Web site is maintained by the University of Wisconsin
Geography Department. The well designed page contains six volumes of
information relating to cartographic changes from ancient times to the
twentieth century. Full descriptions and images are available from
this
unique research, editorial, and publishing project. The fourth site
from the
Library of Congress Historical Collections is entitled American Memory
Collections (4). The page contains various links to civil war maps,
panoramic maps, revolutionary era maps, and other very impressive
collections. The Perry-Casta�±eda Library Map Collection:
Historical
Maps Web
site (5) of the University of Texas at Austin is the next offering.
This
extensive site contains a well organized collection of historical
maps of
Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Europe, the
Middle
East, Polar Regions and Oceans, Russia and the Former Soviet
Republics,
Texas, the US, and the World. The sixth site is maintained by John
Hopkins
University called Color Landforms Atlas of the United States (6). The
main
page contains links to maps from all fifty states, which include large
historical maps from 1895, county maps, and shaded relief maps. The
next
site, old-maps.co.uk (7), is provided by Britain's national mapping
agency
and the Landmark Information Group. The site gives online access to
Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive, which can be
searched and browsed by a variety of subjects to view maps of
Buckingham
Palace, Edinburgh Castle, and Oxford University, among others. The
last
historical maps Web site is the Maps and Geography (8) search engine
from
National Geographic online. Users can search by general historical
maps,
Lewis and Clark maps, New England and New York maps, Civil War, and
WorldW
Maps to find and view an impressive and interesting collection. [JAB]