The Exhibition as a Map: Challenging Conceptions of Travel Mapping by Putting Maps in Their Place

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Notes

1 For a recent statement of this proposition, see Matthew Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019).

2 A brief archived description of the exhibition, along with a video tour and links to educational resources created for the exhibition may be found at: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/crossings-mapping-american-journeys-2.

3 The research and narrative of that exhibition is reflected in the parallel essay I wrote for that year’s Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, published as ‘Twentieth-Century American Road Maps and the Making of a National Motorized Space,’ in James R. Akerman, ed. Cartographies of Travel and Navigation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 151–206.

4 See, for example, Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Schocken, 1976); Justin Stagl, A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel, 1550–1800 (Oxford: Routledge, 1995); James Buzard, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993); Ellen Furlough and Shelley Baranoweski, ed., Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture and Identity in Modern Europe and North America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001); Peter Whitfield, Travel: A Literary History (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2011).

5 The National Road was a federally supported road project that connected Cumberland, Maryland, and by extension the coastal cities of Washington and Baltimore, with the heart of the Midwest and, via later extensions, as far as St. Louis. On its creation and the diversity of traffic on it, see Roger Pickenpaugh, America’s First Interstate (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2020).

6 This project, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Endowments produced the website, 'Mapping Movement in American History and Culture' may be found at https://mappingmovement.newberry.org/.

7 The video ‘Mapping the Underground Railroad: Landscapes of defiance and Ingenuity, 2022, may now be viewed at Karen Lewis Design, https://karenlewisdesign.com/filter/Mapping/MAPPING-THE-UNDERGROUND-RAILROAD>.2. See also Karen Lewis, ‘The Road within the Road,’ Imago Mundi 75, no. 2 (2023): 299–303, https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2023.2281133.