History Resources

Perry Castaneda Library Map collection at the U. of Texas

International but mainly 18th & 19th century Americas.

Selected Links to maps.

Organized by Periods, Places, Themes.

Atlas produced by William R. Shepherd.

Search by date, location, map maker.

Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Non-County areas also included.

1890s-1950s (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio).

Maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory.

Find and display historical maps from selected collections. Click the "Search" link to reach search page.

Scanned maps from the Harvard collection.

A database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000.

Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license.

DARMC "makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. DARMC allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization. A work in progress with no claim to definitiveness."

Digital, original images of maps