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Baltimore, San Fransisco, and city-building

Johns Hopkins University
John Melish summoned ideas of manifest destiny two decades before it became America's de facto expansionist public policy. Melish was a Philadelphia-based...
66 months ago

Ohio looks to draw new generation of hunters

The Columbus Dispatch
RICHWOOD — John Melish grew up in Cincinnati, but all his friends were country boys who teased him about not being a hunter.
70 months ago

How old military roads helped develop St. Tammany and Florida parishes on the north shore

NOLA.com
Northeast of Covington runs a two-lane highway representing the last active segment of an influential road network built over 200 years ago.
2 months ago

The Short Story of the Red River, Oklahoma v. Texas, and the Gradient Boundary—1803–1952

The American Surveyor
Banquo's Ghost The troubled Red River boundary between Oklahoma and Texas is like Shakespeare's Banquo's Ghost, “It Will Not Down.
65 months ago

For years after Alabama's statehood, Native Americans held on to sovereignty in the east

The Anniston Star
The story of an east Alabama once dominated by Native Americans, the Creeks and Cherokees, an influx of pioneers squatting on acres the federal government didn...
57 months ago

Newberry Library Digitizes Trove of Lakota Drawings

Smithsonian Magazine
The art is part of a larger digitization project of early American history by the Chicago-based research library.
77 months ago

REV. W. HOWARD MELISH, 76, DIES; OUSTED AT PARISH IN MCCARTHY ERA (Published 1986)

The New York Times
The Rev. William Howard Melish, the Episcopal priest whose political views led to his ouster from his Brooklyn parish in 1957, died of cancer yesterday at his...
459 months ago

Gerrymandering: Shading the Lines

Ideastream
If the U.S. is supposed to be a representative democracy, when did this country go from voters picking their representatives to politicians picking their...
22 months ago

MELISH, JOHN | Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the Latest & Best Authorities. Philadelphia: Published by John Melish, 1822 | Books and Manuscripts: A Spring Miscellany | 2020

Sotheby's
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection MELISH, JOHN Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions C.
4 months ago

Melish, John "East End of Lake Ontario”

The Philadelphia Print Shop
John Melish. “East End of Lake Ontario.” From A Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States. Philadelphia: J. Melish, March 1813. 5/8 x 4 1/2.
4 months ago