The Meandering Mississippi
Today’s guest post is from Erin Kelly, a GIS Library Technician in the Geography and Map Division. A native of the Baltimore, Maryland area, Erin came to the Library of Congress as a recent graduate of...
View ArticleImaginary Maps in Literature and Beyond: Middle Ages and the Renaissance
This blog post is part of a summer series on imaginary maps, written by Hannah Stahl, a Library Technician in the Geography & Map Division. Read the first post in the series here. We start our...
View ArticleBungled Borders in the Pacific Northwest (Part 1)
This is the first of a two part post on the Oregon Treaty of 1846 and its aftermath. This week, specifically June 15th, marks an important event in the history of the United States’ changing geography:...
View ArticleBungled Borders in the Pacific Northwest (Part 2)
This is the second of a two part post on the Oregon Treaty and its aftermath. Part 1 can be found here. Earlier this week, we left our story of the Oregon Treaty on its peculiar instructions for the...
View ArticleImaginary Maps in Literature and Beyond: “Not all those who wander are lost”
This blog post is part of a summer series on imaginary maps, written by Hannah Stahl, a Library Technician in the Geography & Map Division. Read the introductory post to the series here. All that...
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