At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional ...

but the combination of teaching aids in the Geographical Study is unusual. Built into the back of the case, for example, is a 3D relief map of the United States made of papier-mâché or plaster.

As might be expected, some are missing pieces. The 1900 map of the United States lacks a triangular bit of its Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho; the 1812 map of Europe lost its Italy somewhere along ...

Look at this map below, taken from the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States published in 1932, which shows how long it would take someone in 1800 to travel across the country ...

The classic Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States shows exactly how travel times across the United States have evolved over time. Back in the early 1800s, without easily navigable ...

PROF. A. P. BRIGHAM is already well known as an authority on various geographical aspects of the United States, and those who were stimulated by his lectures in London and Oxford in 1924 will be ...