Guest post by Allison K. Lange, assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. She helped curate the Leventhal Map Center’s “We Are One” exhibition. Cantonment of the Forces in North America 1766. 1766. Manuscript, pen and ink and watercolor,...
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Curatorial AssistantAs a new semester begins at the University of Michigan, here at the Clements Library we’re highlighting some student maps to celebrate the academic year. The educational benefit of studying geography and...
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce its participation in a new exhibition, We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, opening May 2, 2015, at the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Featuring...
Archives specialize in documenting change over time, but the holdings at the William L. Clements Library also reveal how some things remain stable through the years, including the excitement surrounding Christmas morning. On December 20th, 1840, Edward H....
The Clements Library has just acquired a very rare and possibly unique plan of Detroit from the last years of the Michigan Territory. All that is known about Part of the City of Detroit, Michigan is that it was lithographed and published in New York at 22 Nassau...
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsOctober 13 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights. This significant action of the War of 1812, fought some six miles downstream from Niagara Falls, was precipitated by an invasion of...
Mary Pedley’s former Latin students have found new opportunities with cartography. Two of her former students, both classics majors, were seeking summer internships at U of M that would use their talents with ancient languages. Hannah Sorscher studies at the...
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsThe events of August 16, 1812, brought an ignominious end to an American invasion of Canada and sent shock waves through the United States. On that day Brigadier General William Hull surrendered the fort...
Post by Brian L. Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsEarly in the morning of July 17, 1812, the residents of Mackinac Island awoke to pounding on their doors. A group of fellow citizens, led by local militia captain Michael Dousman, told everyone that war...
