Rajczak, Michael
Summary: "If you want to know where you are or where you are going, you can look at a map. Throughout American history, our nation's leaders and citizens were able to use maps for direction and learning. Sometimes these maps were not very accurate, and we can learn about how Americans viewed their world just by looking at the maps they had available. What would our nation look like without the 11...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912 RAJBoyer, Crispin.
Summary: Presents fun and interesting facts about different areas of the fifty states, and includes smartphone and GPS activities for road trips, tourist-related picture puzzles, and places to visit in each state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912.73 BOYDollarhide, William
Summary: "The Great Roads of 1840. Motivated by the need for clear, readable maps, this new American Migration Routes: Part II features descriptions of the same travel routes as Henry S. Tanner's 1840 American Traveller; but adds all new maps for each of the forty-five travel hub cities from the 1840 guidebook. Modern Highway Maps. The trace of an 1840 travel route is emphasized on a current road map....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 304.873 DOLSummary: "Celebrate America's grandeur and diversity with more than 75 National Geographic maps, more than 350 color images, 50-plus attention-grabbing graphics, and more. Each state has its own detailed, easy-to-read map plus a brief essay, facts at a glance about population, state capital, statehood date, and the state flag, bird, and flower, as well as highlights unique to the state"--Provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912.73 UNIHayes, Derek
Summary: Explores the U.S.'s past from a geographical perspective, presenting more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world and discussing important events and cultural changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911 HAYLeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEBDollarhide, William
Summary: This all-new volume of American migration routes includes 88 maps and 77 routes - up from the 22 routes in the 1997 edition. This book has seven (7) chapters, each illustrating a specific era of American transportation history: Indian Paths to Post Roads (1630-1669) The King's Highway (1680-1765) Scots-Irish Wagon Roads (1720-1750) Trans-Appalachian Trails & Roads (1755-1796) Roads to the Ohio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 304.873 DOLRumsey, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: ESRI Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912.7 RUMBonnett, Alastair
Summary: "The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 BONDefoe, Gideon
Summary: "Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either "got too greedy" or "Napoleon turned up." Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911 DEFMan, John.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911 MANNRobb, Graham
Summary: "A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion-by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 ROBSummary: Travel through billions of years of geologic history and discover the processes and events that created and continue to form the Great Lakes and the regions that border these remarkable freshwater bodies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Institute of Science 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File, Inc. 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911.4 MATDoran, Michael F.
Contents: Evolution of Virginia's first-order boundary -- Crystallizing and stabilizing second-order boundaries -- Extinct polities of Virginia -- Ogive of Virginia county formation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iberian Pub. Co. 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 917.557 DoranLinklater, Andro.
Summary: Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911.73 LINFerrell, Robert H.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911.73 FERHayes, Derek
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911.73 HAYBonnett, Alastair
Summary: A tour of the world's hidden geographies; from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910 BONBrooke-Hitching, Edward
Summary: The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorset Press 1985