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Collage of a residential security map.

The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining

We looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated — just like they were designed to be.
by Ryan Best, Elena Mejía via FiveThirtyEight on February 9, 2022
Artistic depiction of changing place names on a map of the United States, specifically the East Coast region..

How to Rename a Place

A little-known federal body gives official approval to what appears on maps. Now it is caught in the middle of the country’s upheaval over racism and language.
by David A. Graham via The Atlantic on January 27, 2022
1935 redlining map of the cities of Pawtucket and Central Falls in Rhode Island.

Reporting on Redlining: An Interview with Scott Markley

How can historic data about segregation, redlining, and real estate be more accessible? In this interview, we dive into a new data set derived from HOLC maps.
by Ian Spangler, Scott Markley via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on January 23, 2022
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Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Mapping the Homestead Act, 1863-1912

Year-by-year maps of homesteading claims and the dispossession of Native Americans.
by Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Julius Wilm via American Panorama on January 18, 2022
Residential Security map of central Chicago, sourced from "Mapping Inequality"

How Academia Laid the Groundwork for Redlining

The connections between private industry and government were much more fluid than was previously imagined.
by LaDale Winling, Todd Michney via Platform on November 1, 2021
Digitally colored map of New York based on census data

Mapping Historical New York

A digital atlas that visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
by Mae Ngai, Gergely Baics, Wright Kennedy, Rebecca Kobrin, Laura Kurgan, Leah Meisterlin, Dan Miller via Columbia University on October 27, 2021
Viking statues with a map background

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery

New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.
by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry via Smithsonian Magazine on September 27, 2021
Woman looking over a former plantation site

The Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People

A story about the hidden burial grounds of Louisiana’s enslaved people, and how continued industrial development is putting the historic sites at risk.
by Alexandra Eaton, Christoph Koettl via New York Times Op-Docs on June 27, 2021
Illustration from Percival Lowell's Mars as the Abode of Life, 1908.

Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals

Observing the visible features of Martian landscapes, Giovanni Schiaparelli began seeing things almost immediately.
by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on June 8, 2021
Map of the Appalachian mountain range

The Making of Appalachian Mississippi

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”
by Justin Randolph via Southern Cultures on May 14, 2021
Illustration of Native Americans on horseback attacking a mail coach

How the U.S. Postal Service Forever Changed the West

A new book argues that mail service played a critical role in the U.S. government’s westward expansion and occupation of Native lands.
by Cameron Blevins, Laura Bliss via CityLab on April 21, 2021
Screenshot of map showing post offices between 1848 and 1895.

Gossamer Network

An interactive digital history project chronicling how the U.S. Post was the underlying circuitry of western expansion.
by Cameron Blevins, Yan Wu, Steven Braun via Northeastern University on March 31, 2021
Man walking though flood in Chicago

Redlined, Now Flooding

Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today.
by Kriston Capps, Christopher Cannon via Bloomberg on March 15, 2021
Collage of FSA and OWI photographs
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Photogrammar

A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photos taken by U.S. government agencies during the Great Depression.
by Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold via American Panorama on February 10, 2021
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The Lines That Shape Our Cities

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.
by Esri via American Panorama on December 18, 2020

In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See

Explore maps of 142 cities to see the lingering harms of the racist lending policies known as redlining.
by Maria Godoy via NPR on November 19, 2020

City Sketches and the Census

Life across the United States in 1880.
by Bailey DeSimone via Library of Congress on October 20, 2020
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Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining

Juxtaposing contemporary public health data with 1930s redlining maps reveals one of the legacies of urban racial segregation.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, National Community Reinvestment Coalition via American Panorama on September 14, 2020
A graphic featuring a map of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and slavery imagery.

Cancer Alley

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.
by Monique Michelle Verdin via Southern Cultures on August 1, 2020

The Edge of the Map

Monsters have always patrolled the margins of the map. By their very strangeness, they determined the boundaries of the regular world.
by Colin Dickey via The Paris Review on July 23, 2020
A street in the 1940s with cars parked in front of a food market and a barber shop.

Planned Destruction

A brief history on land ownership, valuation and development in the City of Richmond and the maps used to destroy black communities.
by LaToya S. Gray via ArcGIS StoryMaps on July 22, 2020

Here Come the Cul-de-Sacs

Satellite images dating back to 1975 allow researchers to map how millions of cul-de-sacs and dead-ends have proliferated in street networks worldwide.
by Laura Bliss via CityLab on February 5, 2020
1937 Assessment Grades from the Homeowners' Loan Corporation

Mapping the Legacy of Structural Racism in Philadelphia

An interactive data report presents the impact of structural racism on Philadelphia, mapping 2019’s homicides and present day disadvantage with 1930s redlining maps.
by Rebecca Rhynhart via City Of Philadelphia on January 23, 2020

Emma Willard's Maps of Time

The pioneering work of Emma Willard, a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.
by Susan Schulten via The Public Domain Review on January 22, 2020
Covers of annual editions of Bob Damron's Address Book from the 1970s.

Mapping the Gay Guides

Visualizing Queer Space and American Life
by Eric Gonzaba, Amanda Regen via Mapping The Gay Guides on December 14, 2019

Dream Come True

An excerpt from a new book reveals how Disneyland came to be.
by Richard Snow via Air Mail on November 23, 2019

The Pirate Map That Launched My Career

Oceanographer Dawn Wright on how "Treasure Island" led her to map the bottom of the sea.
by Dawn Wright via CityLab on November 15, 2019

Water is for Fighting

How a profit-driven approach to water rights left the west high and dry.
by Sparky Abraham via Current Affairs on July 8, 2019

A People Map of the US

What does it look like when city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident?
by Matthew Daniels, Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on May 29, 2019
Interior of St Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia

Roman Catholic Dioceses in North America

How mapping Roman Catholic dioceses illustrates key concepts of religious ecologies at a continental scale.
by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media via American Religious Ecologies on May 20, 2019
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