{"id":1786558,"date":"2018-11-05T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786558"},"modified":"2018-11-05T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:06:21","slug":"emma-willards-history-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/emma-willards-history-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Willard’s History of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Rumsey Map Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atlas Obscura<\/em> looks<\/a> at the cartographic work of early American educator Emma Willard<\/a>, who in 1829 published a series of maps<\/a> to accompany her History of United States, or Republic of America<\/em>, a school textbook that came out the previous year. The book was an early example of a historical atlas: it was “the first book of its kind\u2014the first atlas to present the evolution of America.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlas Obscura looks at the cartographic work of early American educator Emma Willard, who in 1829 published a series of maps to accompany her History of United States, or Republic of America, a school textbook… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,139,35],"tags":[144,158],"class_list":["post-1786558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-education","category-history","tag-1800s","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789490,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/new-map-books-early-october-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786558,"position":0},"title":"New Map Books: Early October 2020","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"New map books released in early October include: The 27th edition of the Oxford Atlas of the World (Oxford University Press); this atlas is updated annually. 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