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Derwent S. Whittlesey

American geographer

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historical geography

  • A map, titled “Historical Geography” and created by John F. Smith (1888), that uses the images of two highly stylized trees superimposed onto a map of the United States to depict the spread and triumph of liberty (in the North) over slavery (in the South) from the founding of the United States through the Civil War.
    In historical geography

    …intervals of historic time—initiated by Derwent S. Whittlesey and Carl O. Sauer. The establishment of the Journal of Historical Geography (1975) and historical-geography research groups by the Institute of British Geographers (1973) and the Association of American Geographers (1979) served to vindicate the historical approach in geography.

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