From 1790 to the 1830s, thousands of schoolgirls, including Catharine Cook in 1818, displayed their knowledge of geography, art, and penmanship in painstakingly produced maps.

Beyond the historical points, the map shows something that still affects modern America: Some researchers have found, for example, that the size of Southern counties’ slave populations in 1860 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A hand-drawn, late 18th-century map of Detroit has joined a trove of historical artifacts from the city and America. The University of Michigan’s Clements Library now ...

A rare, hand-drawn 1790 map of Detroit has been discovered in a family home in Ontario. The framed 21-by-40-inch map is now part of the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A hand-drawn, late 18th-century map of Detroit has joined a trove of historical artifacts from the city and America. University of Michigan library acquires 1790 map of ...