Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography
Garrett Speaker Information
John Logan Allen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming. “Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Explorers in the American Northwest: Solving the Riddle of the Great Divide.”
Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico. “Transnational Cartographies: Corporations, States and the Remapping of the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands, 1850-1920.”
Ronald Grim, Head of the Map Collection, Boston Public Library and Paul D. McDermott, Professor of Geography (retired), Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland. “Railroads and Roads through Tribal Lands: Mapping the Pacific Northwest’s Changing Landscape during the 1850s.”
John R. Hébert, Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. “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”
Ben Huseman, Cartographic Archivist, Special Collections, UT Arlington Library. “Revisualizing Westward Expansion: Reflections on the Exhibits.”