AUTHOR: John Hessler

John Hessler was a cartographic specialist and curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. He is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and author of more than 100 articles and books, including the New York Times bestseller, “Map: Exploring the World.” His other books include “Collecting for a New World” and “Exposing the Maya: Early Archaeological Photography in the Americas.” His writing and research have also been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CBS News and NPR’s All Things Considered.

Most Recent Posts

• How to Feel Comfortable in Someone Else’s Skin August 11th, 2022
• Lost Pages and Hidden Libraries: my quest to find the first book printed in the Americas April 27th, 2022
• Visualizing Injustice: Early NAACP Cartographers and Racial Inequality in America January 18th, 2022
• To Have Traveled So Far: The Provenance and History of the Kislak Encounter Paintings October 27th, 2021
• A Book Tied Up in Knots September 6th, 2021
• Finding John Huston’s Feathers August 16th, 2021
• Summer Reading Projects or How to Become Levi-Strauss July 26th, 2021
• A Culture of Stone: carving the marble vessels of the ancient Americas July 22nd, 2021
• Eternal Abstractions: Looking at the Burial Urns of Santa Maria July 6th, 2021