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Mapping the Colonization of North America Day by Day

Using a day-by-day progression, we guide viewers through the colonization of North America with Google Earth as our map and ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Marketing tool to bring more settlers to New World: Colonial Williamsburg art museum exhibit showcases colonial, early American maps

When European settlers mapped the American continents, they also faced the challenge of charting a course — and a reason — for others to follow suit. Starting Oct. 17, visitors to Colonial ...
Hit Points on MSN

Lost native villages revealed—400-year puzzle from John Smith’s map finally solved

In the summer of 2024, excavations along Virginia's Fones Cliffs unearthed approximately 11,000 artifacts—pottery shards, ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Springfield museum exhibit focuses on Colonial-era maps and the stories they tell — or don't tell

1 of 5 — Springfield Museums We Have a Story to Tell At the Springfield Museums in western Massachusetts, the most recent exhibit connected to an aspect of the region’s Native American culture is on ...
MassLive

Are you living on Indigenous land? Use this map to find out

An interactive website is teaching users about the Indigenous people that lived in parts of North America, South America, Africa, and Australia. The website, created by the Canadian non-profit Native ...
Daily Press

An exhibition at Colonial Williamsburg shows how early maps were used as propaganda to promote exploration

Colonial explorers created elaborate maps to track where they were going and to pinpoint their finds as they moved into the “New World.” The maps also made for good propaganda. They showed exotic ...
Business Insider

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln relocated 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island as a part of an 'experiment.' The plan failed catastrophically.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white society ...
insider.si.edu

The Southeast in early maps with an annotated check list of printed and manuscript regional and local maps of southeastern North America during the colonial period

NMAI copy 39088017694308 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS WITH AN ANNOTATED CHECK LIST OF PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT REGIONAL AND LOCAL MAPS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH ...
WGBH

Springfield museum exhibit focuses on Colonial-era maps and the stories they tell — or don't tell

At the Springfield Museums in western Massachusetts, the most recent exhibit connected to an aspect of the region’s Native American culture is on display at the Wood Museum of Springfield History.