Home

This project will primarily examine the cartography of European colonists and settlers in New England from approximately 1600 to 1775 through British cartography. It is a regionally focused study covering 150 years of cartography from the point of European contact in New England until the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. It will seek to understand how an American identity was created during this time through cartographic examination of what cartographers chose to include and what they chose to exclude. It is a living project, meaning that it will be continuously updated and modified as I amend and add to the research.

​

This project builds on previous research from multiple courses through Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and covers topics such as King Philip’s War, the French and Indian War, Anglo-American Identity, concepts of land entitlement, and Modern Indigenous Scholarship. While this project will mostly focus on cartography and maps, notable battles, local history, various aspects of cultural ethnography, and society that are reflected in the maps will be discussed. Although multiple maps will be included and analyzed, a few will undergo more scrutiny.