Mapping History Maps are not passive objects. They are active instruments in events that are important to us as individuals, as communities, and as nations. They inspire journeys, explorations, and migrations, and influence patterns of settlement. In times of war maps help plan battles, and when peace arrives they are tools for diplomacy. Maps can reveal what people know, what they thought they knew, what they hope for, and sometimes, what they fear. Object Highlights: The original 1832 survey of the land that would become the city of Chicago The Pacific war zone during World War II, as printed in the Los Angeles Times in 1944 Explorer Hernán Cortés's 1524 map of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan Continue to Visualizing Nature and Society. >> Detail at top: Courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago

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