PBS

Resources on Historical Maps, Colonialism and Indigenous People

At the Spokane ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2007, a guest named Maurice brought in a large and weathered-looking atlas, which he explained to appraiser Stephen Massey had passed down to him from his ...
Hyperallergic

How Cartography Helped Make Colonial Empires

If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...
The New York Times

Settler Colonialism: A Guide for the Sincere

See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google A former colleague ...
SF Weekly

Making Maps for Love, Self, and Anti-Colonialism

A famous one-paragraph story by Jorge Luis Borges describes an Empire’s cartography guild that made a map so accurate that it was as large as the Empire itself. This story illustrates both the ideal ...
The New York Times

RARE COLONIAL MAP IS ACQUIRED BY U.S.

Special to The New York Times. New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only ...
Albuquerque Journal

FBI returns stolen colonial map of Santa Fe to Mexico

A stolen map, dating from the 1700s, was recently recovered by the FBI and returned to the National Archives of Mexico at a ceremony in Albuquerque on Tuesday. Speaking at the Consulate of Mexico, ...
The Hill

Fracturing states in Africa are redrawing colonial maps

The Ethiopian state of Tigray is the latest region to attempt to break away from the central government of an African nation. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front retook the capital city of Mekelle ...