I recently finished reading Susan Schulten’s fascinating Mapping the Nation. History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America . This s...

The lands of the Mexican Cession, acquired by the United States in 1848 , came into the country without definite internal political organiza...

In an earlier blog , I wrote about Alexander Wilson, often called the "father of American ornithology." He earned this sobriqu...

In past blogs (for instance in the blog on print journals ) I have written about the American Historical Print Society’s excellent magazin...

In the previous two blogs of the series "Shaping the Trans-Mississippi West," we looked at how two huge areas were added to the Un...

I have just returned from an excellent Antiques Forum in New Orleans, where I presented a paper on Alexander Wilson . He has always been on...