The Historical Atlas: Teaching Tool or Coffee-Table Book?

Black, Jeremy

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“…55 In an earlier essay, Black cited the Cappon volume as an example of the enormous amount of time and costs required for producing maps when there are limitations in the availability of original maps and in the textual information provided by scholarly work. 56 Given Cappon's interest in his atlas as a teaching tool, it is useful to note Black's conclusion in this latter essay: 'Unless the historical atlas adapts to new possibilities and challenges, its value as a teaching and research tool will be overlooked, especially at the nonspecialist level, and it will appear increasingly redundant, particularly to those concerned with local and social history. Equally, unless atlases are used, students will become increasingly spatially illiterate and geographically ignorant and this will seriously affect their knowledge and understanding of the past.'…”

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Lester J. Cappon, Scholarly Publishing, and the Atlas of Early American History, 1957–1976

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2012

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

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The Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era 1760–1790, published in 1976, remains one of the lasting legacies of the US Bicentennial. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a variety of private foundations, the publication was only incidentally a product of the celebration of the birth of a nation. The Atlas was the product of twenty years of effort by Lester J. Cappon—historian, archivist, and documentary editor—and because of his commitment to maintaining his own personal archives, we can learn more about this scholarly publishing venture than most. His rich diaries, personal papers, and Atlas archives enable us to follow the trials and tribulations of this publishing venture. We also learn that the kinds of issues facing scholarly publishing today, with a few differences (such as e-publishing), are not unique at all from those of half a century ago.

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