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Posted by: Julie Stoner
I love watching the Olympic Games, both summer and winter! So with the Winter Olympics starting this week in P’yongch’ang, I decided to dive into our collections to learn more about historic maps of Korea, encompassing what is now North and South Korea. As I began browsing our digitized collections, I was first struck by …
Posted in: Asian History, Manuscripts
Posted by: John Hessler
Writing is a strange invention. One might suppose that its emergence could not fail to bring profound changes in the conditions of human existence… –Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques Time and money are spent in collecting the remains …
Posted in: Exploring the Early Americas, Kislak Collection, Manuscripts, Series: Excavating Archaeology
Posted by: Ryan Moore
The Philip Lee Phillips Map Society of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce its latest installment of The Occasional Papers: “The King of Maps: Philip Lee Phillips’ First Acquisitions Trips in the Deep South 1903 and Europe 1905.” The paper’s author, Cheryl Fox, is a Specialist in the Library’s Manuscript Division. Ms. Fox …
Posted in: Biography, Manuscripts
Posted by: John Hessler
Conference Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1516 Carta Marina. Keynote address by award winning author and historian of science Dava Sobel. A two-day conference hosted by the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress will celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta Marina, one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance …
Posted in: Events, Exploration, Exploring the Early Americas, Kislak Collection, Manuscripts
Posted by: Ryan Moore
Today’s post is from Ryan Moore, a Cartographic Specialist in the Geography and Map Division. Cornelius Mahoney “Neil” Sheehan (1936- ) is a journalist best known for his reporting on the Pentagon Papers, a secret Department of Defense study of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Sheehan, when working as a reporter for The New York …
Posted in: Biography, Manuscripts, Military History
Posted by: Ed Redmond
A recent Library of Congress Blog post entitled “Trending: The Mother of Mother’s Day” reminded me of one of my favorite Civil War maps. Although Mother’s Day as we know it (greeting cards, flowers, breakfast in bed, etc.) did not exist, a Confederate soldier sought to immortalize his mother – on a battle map. On …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Manuscripts, Military History
Posted by: Ed Redmond
In school, we all learned about Paul Revere and his famous April 18, 1775 ride through the Massachusetts countryside warning of an impending British armed force marching from Boston, MA to the small towns of Lexington and Concord. But, of course, there is much more to the story, including the British commander of all troops …
Posted in: American History, Biography, Manuscripts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Worlds Revealed is featuring weekly posts about the history of women in geography and cartography. You can click on the “Women’s History Month” category see all related posts. We’ve all heard the story of Rosie the Riveter: women, from a wide variety of backgrounds, who entered …
Posted in: 20th century cartography, American History, Biography, Manuscripts, Women's History
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is by Anthony Páez Mullan, a cartographic reference specialist in the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. He specializes in the historical cartography of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and is a co-author of the “Luso-Hispanic World in Maps.” The Library of Congress recently acquired an important …
Posted in: Borders, Exploration, Exploring the Early Americas, Guest Posts, Hispanic American History, Manuscripts