The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.
With my Hadrian 1900 project starting in 2017, I intend to reserve this blog for Hadrian related content while I will use my new blog Following Hadrian Photography to cover all the other places I have visited. The focus of my new blog is on photography rather than text. Following Hadrian Photography will always be a work in progress and new archaeological sites and museums will be added on a regular basis.
Read about inventive approaches for using Facing History in the classroom, personal stories, news, and insights from educators, scholars, staff, and students who share the goal of creating a better, more informed, and more thoughtful society. Facing Today illuminates our work in schools and communities across the globe while our other two blogs focus on work being done locally in Canada and Southern California.
So I was sifting through reams of Google News Alerts, slightly miffed that there wasn’t some nice, handy blog that had already done all the sifting for me, when it struck me like the proverbial bolt of lightning that non-laziness is an actual option. Hell, if I’m doing it for myself, why not post the products for all my brothers and sisters in history nerddom?
Our mission is to help put current events into historical perspective. Given how public opinion is shaped today, whipsawed emotionally on talk shows this way and that in response to the egos of the guests, the desire for ratings by the hosts and the search for profits by media companies and sponsors, historians are especially needed now. They can help remind us of the superficiality of what-happens-today-is-all-that-counts journalism.
This is an art history blog that focuses on 18th century Europe. I do my best to make sure information is accurate and complete and that users can easily find resources and citations. Although book review copies and giveaways are welcome (and fun!), I will only accept those that I believe will fit with the nature of my blog or that I think my readers will enjoy. This site does not receive payment for writing book, movie, exhibition or merchandise reviews.
