ABSTRACT
A worldwide compendium of exhibits on the history of cartography. The online version of Mercator's World: The Magazine of Maps, Exploration and Discovery provides a useful set of links divided by subject area. The most helpful for historians are in the areas of cartography, history, libraries and collections, and museums. Provides a variety of maps for each of the fifty states, including shaded topographical maps, satellite images, county maps, and scans from an 1895 Rand McNally atlas. An American Studies project at the University of Virginia, this site seeks to create an American historical atlas examining the physical landscape as well as mapmakers' mental and cultural terrain. The University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library provides online images of many historical maps from its collection, with an emphasis on maps of Georgia. The US Civil War Center, a division of Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections, has compiled an extensive list of links to Civil War maps.
