Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography
Garrett Lecture Program
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Refreshments
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome, Introduction and Opening Remarks
10:15 – 11:15 “Maps and the U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-48: Governmental and Private Mapping Efforts to Report on the Conflict as it Was Happening and in Response to Official Reports” John R. Hébert
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 “Transnational Cartographies: Corporations, States, and the Remapping of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1850 – 1920” Samuel Truett
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 “Railroads and Roads through Tribal Lands: Mapping the Pacific Northwest’s Changing Landscape during the 1850’s” Ronald Grim and Paul D. McDermott
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:45 “Revisualizing Westward Expansion: Reflections on the Exhibits” Ben Huseman
3:45 – 4:00 Remarks
6:30 – 8:00 Reception and Exhibition Viewing at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
8:00 – 9:00 “Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Explorers in the American Northwest: Solving the Riddle of the Great Divide” John Logan Allen
9:00 – 9:15 Closing Remarks