Mapping Nature across the Americas
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Summer Program Type
Summer Program Audience
Contact
312-255-3575
The seminar directors, James Akerman (a geographer and the Newberry’s Curator of Maps) and Kathleen Brosnan (an environmental historian and the Travis Chair of Modern American History, University of Oklahoma) will lead 16 schoolteachers on a course of reading, discussion, and research. A primary feature of the seminar will be “show-and-tell” sessions where participants will become immersed in historical maps from the Newberry’s extensive and renowned collection. These hands-on exercises will allow participants to explore more fully how maps reveal the complex, contradictory, and contested ways in which humans conceived their place in nature through history.
Project Director(s)
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
James Akerman; Kathleen Brosnan
Grantee Institution
Funded through the Division of Education Programs