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  • Maps and Imagined Landscapes of Colonial North America

    Just as important as what maps show is what they don’t show. Any time we look at a map, we see a landscape as filtered through the mapmaker’s judgements, prejudices, and cultural context.

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  • “… a tense moment…”

    “… a tense moment…”

    This is part II in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.

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  • “… a segregated set of circumstances.”

    This is part I in a multi-part series exploring the youth and adolescence of Robert Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service and the first director of color, and how the context of his early years informed his tenure atop the NPS.

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