Susan Schulten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Schulten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulten |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULTEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1302-0062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paper Trails
Reviewed by: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins Susan Schulten (bio) Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West. By Cameron Blevins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 232. Cloth, $34.95.) The U.S. Post has drawn far less attention than other federal agencies in the settlement of the West, particularly the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the General Land Office, and the U.S. mi…
Let us conquer space’
Map Drawing, Graphic Literacy, and Pedagogy in the Early Republic
Students in the early republic commonly stitched, drew, and painted maps of their states, nation, and world as part of their educations. Map drawing and geography were regarded as particularly appropriate subjects for girls, both as a pathway to literacy and as a means of demonstrating accomplishment. Many young girls exposed to map work in their own educations went on to become teachers themselves and carried these practices with them into an ev…
The Mapmakers of New Zion
Richard Francaviglia has written a thorough, readable and engaging account of the relationship between Mormonism and cartography in the United States. Many will be surprised that there is in fact s
Thematic Cartography and Federal Science in Antebellum America
Civic Discipline
Recovering Charles Daly; or, Charles Daly and American Geographical Thought
The American Geographical and Statistical Society (AGss) was founded in 1851 by men who were keenly interested in territorial expansion and commercial development. Victory over Mexico in 1848 had brought vast territory under American control (and devastating consequences for Native Americans). But this gain simultaneously raised the impossible question of the extension of slavery. Although the AGSS began in the flush of optimism after the Comprom…
The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
Over the west staircase of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol hangs an iconic image of American history, entitled First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (see figure Painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864, it portrays Lincoln's announcement of emancipation to his cabinet in July 1862. The painting immortalized a particular version of events and a narrative of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator which only grew ove…
Get Lost
I finished The Humboldt Current at noon on a glorious spring day in northern California. Sachs concludes with a call to follow the work of Alexander von Humboldt: get lost in nature, allow it to overtake you even in everyday life. So I set off from my in-laws' home in the hills of the East Bay, and made my way to the local park nestled at the top of a ridge. Just as I have for the last ten years, I passed a sign that read “No Trespassing”—a messa…
Emma Willard and the graphic foundations of American history
How to See Colorado
One of the four arts projects of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project created travel guides to each of the forty-eight states. Colorado's distance from the national editorial office—both geographically and culturally—highlights the very real differences between local and national visions of Colorado and the West and offers rich material for studying the evolution of regionalism and western history
Condensing the Cold War
This is a brief study of the Cold War rhetoric of the Reader's Digest. Joanne P. Sharp chooses to focus on this magazine for a few reasons. First, the Digest had a circulation so high that it quickly became “the single most important voice in the creation of popular geopolitics in America in the twentieth century.” No other form of medium, she writes, “has been so consistent or influential as the Digest, and none has so effectively contextualized…
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
Journal Article The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950 Get access The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. By Schulten Susan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 319 pp. $40.00, isbn0-226-74055-2.) Jonathan M. Smith Jonathan M. Smith Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, P…
The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950
"What is the history of geography in this country? How have Americans been taught to see the world around them? Susan Schulten addresses these questions by examining how ideas and images shaped popular understandings of world geography from the 1880s to the 1950s, a critical period in history that saw the United States evolve from a relatively isolationist nation to an international, economic superpower. Schulten examines four enduring institutio…
Richard Edes Harrison and the challenge to American cartography
Richard Edes Harrison's innovative maps of the 1940s are critical to the history of American cartography. His techniques defied convention and created a new standard for the look and shape of the world on a map. Harrison designed the maps to be both visually appealing and politically charged, reflecting the urgency of the war while also maintaining an elegant artistic dimension. How he produced these maps, and why they so electrified the populati…
The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950
"What is the history of geography in this country? How have Americans been taught to see the world around them? Susan Schulten addresses these questions by examining how ideas and images shaped popular understandings of world geography from the 1880s to the 1950s, a critical period in history that saw the United States evolve from a relatively isolationist nation to an international, economic superpower. Schulten examines four enduring institutio…
Richard Edes Harrison and the challenge to American cartography
Richard Edes Harrison's innovative maps of the 1940s are critical to the history of American cartography. His techniques defied convention and created a new standard for the look and shape of the world on a map. Harrison designed the maps to be both visually appealing and politically charged, reflecting the urgency of the war while also maintaining an elegant artistic dimension. How he produced these maps, and why they so electrified the populati…
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
Journal Article The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950 Get access The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. By Schulten Susan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 319 pp. $40.00, isbn0-226-74055-2.) Jonathan M. Smith Jonathan M. Smith Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, P…
Emma Willard and the graphic foundations of American history
The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
Over the west staircase of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol hangs an iconic image of American history, entitled First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (see figure Painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864, it portrays Lincoln's announcement of emancipation to his cabinet in July 1862. The painting immortalized a particular version of events and a narrative of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator which only grew ove…
Map Drawing, Graphic Literacy, and Pedagogy in the Early Republic
Students in the early republic commonly stitched, drew, and painted maps of their states, nation, and world as part of their educations. Map drawing and geography were regarded as particularly appropriate subjects for girls, both as a pathway to literacy and as a means of demonstrating accomplishment. Many young girls exposed to map work in their own educations went on to become teachers themselves and carried these practices with them into an ev…
Civic Discipline
Richard Edes Harrison and the challenge to American cartography
Richard Edes Harrison's innovative maps of the 1940s are critical to the history of American cartography. His techniques defied convention and created a new standard for the look and shape of the world on a map. Harrison designed the maps to be both visually appealing and politically charged, reflecting the urgency of the war while also maintaining an elegant artistic dimension. How he produced these maps, and why they so electrified the populati…
The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950
"What is the history of geography in this country? How have Americans been taught to see the world around them? Susan Schulten addresses these questions by examining how ideas and images shaped popular understandings of world geography from the 1880s to the 1950s, a critical period in history that saw the United States evolve from a relatively isolationist nation to an international, economic superpower. Schulten examines four enduring institutio…
Condensing the Cold War
This is a brief study of the Cold War rhetoric of the Reader's Digest. Joanne P. Sharp chooses to focus on this magazine for a few reasons. First, the Digest had a circulation so high that it quickly became “the single most important voice in the creation of popular geopolitics in America in the twentieth century.” No other form of medium, she writes, “has been so consistent or influential as the Digest, and none has so effectively contextualized…
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
Journal Article The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950 Get access The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. By Schulten Susan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 319 pp. $40.00, isbn0-226-74055-2.) Jonathan M. Smith Jonathan M. Smith Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, P…
How to See Colorado
One of the four arts projects of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project created travel guides to each of the forty-eight states. Colorado's distance from the national editorial office—both geographically and culturally—highlights the very real differences between local and national visions of Colorado and the West and offers rich material for studying the evolution of regionalism and western history
Emma Willard and the graphic foundations of American history
Get Lost
I finished The Humboldt Current at noon on a glorious spring day in northern California. Sachs concludes with a call to follow the work of Alexander von Humboldt: get lost in nature, allow it to overtake you even in everyday life. So I set off from my in-laws' home in the hills of the East Bay, and made my way to the local park nestled at the top of a ridge. Just as I have for the last ten years, I passed a sign that read “No Trespassing”—a messa…
The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
Over the west staircase of the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol hangs an iconic image of American history, entitled First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (see figure Painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter in 1864, it portrays Lincoln's announcement of emancipation to his cabinet in July 1862. The painting immortalized a particular version of events and a narrative of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator which only grew ove…
Thematic Cartography and Federal Science in Antebellum America
Civic Discipline
Recovering Charles Daly; or, Charles Daly and American Geographical Thought
The American Geographical and Statistical Society (AGss) was founded in 1851 by men who were keenly interested in territorial expansion and commercial development. Victory over Mexico in 1848 had brought vast territory under American control (and devastating consequences for Native Americans). But this gain simultaneously raised the impossible question of the extension of slavery. Although the AGSS began in the flush of optimism after the Comprom…
The Mapmakers of New Zion
Richard Francaviglia has written a thorough, readable and engaging account of the relationship between Mormonism and cartography in the United States. Many will be surprised that there is in fact s
Map Drawing, Graphic Literacy, and Pedagogy in the Early Republic
Students in the early republic commonly stitched, drew, and painted maps of their states, nation, and world as part of their educations. Map drawing and geography were regarded as particularly appropriate subjects for girls, both as a pathway to literacy and as a means of demonstrating accomplishment. Many young girls exposed to map work in their own educations went on to become teachers themselves and carried these practices with them into an ev…
Paper Trails
Reviewed by: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins Susan Schulten (bio) Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West. By Cameron Blevins. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 232. Cloth, $34.95.) The U.S. Post has drawn far less attention than other federal agencies in the settlement of the West, particularly the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the General Land Office, and the U.S. mi…
Let us conquer space’
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