[ISHMap-List] Stitching Empire, Cecilia Lewis's Map of the United States, 1809

[Joel Kovarsky]

I thought this recent article might be of interest to some here: 
http://www.common-place.org/vol-14/no-03/lessons/#.U6RIrqjTY6E .

About the author:

"Mary Peterson Zundo received an MFA in printmaking and an MA in 
American art history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 
where she is completing a dissertation on the interrelationships of maps 
and pictures in the construction of nationhood, race, and identity in 
the American West before and after the Civil War."

        Joel Kovarsky