Gift guide
Gifts for history teachers
A history teacher already has the textbook map. What they don't have is the map that was on the table when it happened, big enough for the back row to read: the first map of the United States printed after the Treaty of Paris, the Mitchell map the peace negotiators used, Emma Willard's Temple of Time — the chart she drew to teach chronology to schoolgirls in 1846 — a 1709 map of the Roman Empire, Blaeu's world at the height of the Dutch Golden Age. Every print carries the archive, cartographer and year on the packing slip, so the lesson comes with it. Framed prints ship ready to hang on a classroom wall; paper prints fit a budget and a poster rail.
First Map of the United States, 1784
Mitchell Map of North America, 1755
Gettysburg Battlefield Map, 1863
Willard's Temple of Time Chart, 1849
Map of the Roman Empire, 1709
Blaeu World Map, 1664
Ratzer Plan of New York City, 1776
Colton Railroad Map of the United States, 1882
See America Visit the National Parks WPA Poster, 1936
Carta Marina Sea Monster Map, 1572
Murillo Velarde Map of the Philippines, 1734
Three tips
- For a classroom, go to 24×36 — the names have to read from the back row.
- An unframed paper print is the budget option and slips into a poster rail; ask the school before choosing a framed one for a wall it can't be hung on.
- Pair a US map with the Temple of Time: one is where, the other is when.