American Revolution Geographies Online: Maps of the Revolution

The Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, with a collection of more than 200,000 maps, has joined forces with the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, which holds the Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection to create "ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online." These on-line, digitized Revolutionary-era maps will help us understand the Revolutionary era as its participants saw it.  We talk with  Garrett Dash Nelson, President and Head Curator of the Leventhal Map Center, and Alexandra L. Montgomery, a post-doctoral fellow in the digital history and cartography of the American Revolution at Mount Vernon, about this exciting collaborative project.  

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