Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography
Garrett Lecture Program
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome, Introduction and Opening Remarks.
Gerald Saxon, Dean, The University of Texas at Arlington Library
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, Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
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, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
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, Head of the Map Collection, Boston Public Library and Paul D. McDermott, Professor of Geography (retired), Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:35 “Revisualizing Westward Expansion: Reflections on the Exhibits” Ben Huseman, Cartographic Archivist, Special Collections, UT Arlington Library
3:35 – 4:15 Tour of Garrett Map Exhibition
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, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming
9:00 – 9:15 Closing Remarks
“Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900” Ann E. Hodges, Special Collections Program Coordinator, The University of Texas at Arlington Library
