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• Originally published 12/07/2017

  In Australia, historians and artists have turned to cartography to record the widespread killing of Indigenous people

  Chief among them is historian Lyndall Ryan, who says her fellow historians are in denial about the extent of the massacres.

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• Originally published 05/22/2014

  World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy.

  Susan Schulten

  More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in American history.

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• Originally published 02/17/2014

  How the North Ended Up on Top of the Map

  Nick Danforth

  A cartographic history of what’s up.

• Originally published 03/26/2013

  LoC historian publishes history of Renaissance man who named America

  A DECADE AGO, the Library of Congress paid $10 million to acquire the only known original copy of a 1507 world map that has been called “the birth certificate of America.” The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World. The research has also rescued from obscurity a little-known Renaissance man, the 16th-century globe maker Johannes Schöner, who was responsible for saving the map for posterity.Five years ago, John W. Hessler, a historian of cartography at the library, published “The Naming of America,” an account of the map’s importance in post-Ptolemy geography, its disappearance for centuries and its rediscovery in a castle near the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. Now, Dr. Hessler has dug deeper into the dynamic of the years between Columbus, in 1492, and Copernicus, in 1543. Science and exploration were stretching minds to distant horizons, once unknown. Copernican astronomy was about to dislodge Earth from the center of the universe, a start to the Scientific Revolution.