John Melish summoned ideas of manifest destiny two decades before it became America's de facto expansionist public policy. Melish was a Philadelphia-based mapmaker who, in 1816, published A ...
2013-03-23T20:00:47-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/282/20130323200223003_hd.jpgAlan Lessoff spoke about 19th century urban growth in the United States. He ...