The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress. Reviewed Dec. 2009

Abstract

The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews appear both in the printed journal (and its online companion at http://www.historycooperative.org) and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand Web sites for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the best Web sites and to summarize their strengths and weaknesses with particular attention to their utility for teachers. The Web reviews are edited by Kelly Schrum; please contact her at kschrum@gmu.edu if you would like to suggest a site for review or write a review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, which are available at http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/submit/websitereviews.html. This Web site brings together many of the roughly two thousand maps in the Library of Congress's collection of revolutionary-era cartography, with plans to add additional maps monthly. (Nearly three decades ago, the set was described in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750–1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress [1981], compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee.) In its present stage of construction the site is very useful, and it can be expected to become more so as additional maps are brought online. It provides prime material for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate majors, and a link connects it to a resource page for teachers.