Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict August 27, 2008

Seventeen rare nineteenth-century maps on display reveal how cartography helped us find our way as a country. The maps span the century, from Aaron Arrowsmith's great 1796 map of the United States to a colorful 1902 map showing the American West and the territories acquired by the United States in the Spanish-American War of 1898.