Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861
Coltons General Atlas of the World

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Following is a listing of some websites related to this exhibit, for further investigation.

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The Early American Foreign Service Database

By Jean Bauer of Princeton University, this database maps all American foreign service officers from 1775 to 1825.

Invasion of America

By Claudio Saunt of the University of Georgia, this visualization traces every Native American land cession to demonstrate “how the United States took over an eighth of the world.”

Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

By the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, this is a digital edition of Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932).  Especially see Plate 166, “Possessions and Territorial Claims of the United States.”