The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present

by Helen Hornbeck Tanner (Editor), Henry F. Dobyns (Contributor), Robert C. Ostergren (Contributor)

More than 100 color maps chart the movements of peoples in and around North America over a three thousand year period: these form the heart of a fine visual history for adults which is authenticated by a team of historians and which presents fine overviews of all ethnic group experiences. Highly recommended as a basic visual history for those who want in-depth coverage of timeline events. -- Midwest Book Review

208 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Helen Hornbeck Tanner was a distinguished scholar of American Indian history and literature, publishing books on the Caddo and the Ojibwa as well as on early eighteenth-century Spanish Florida. Her crowning scholarly achievement in print was the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Helen's commitment to the development of scholarship by American Indians is symbolized by the Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fund, co-named for her, which supports work at The Newberry Library by Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral scholars of American Indian heritage. Helen graduated with distinction from Swarthmore College in 1937 and went on to complete a Master's degree at the University of Florida (1948) and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan (1961). She taught at Michigan for several years but she was always proudest of her academic affiliation with the Newberry Library.

Reviews

[Cheryl]

Oy. Great concept. But. Far too much text for an 'atlas.' Maps difficult to decipher, poorly designed. Fonts small. Basically the editor tried to cram all that history into one book, instead of being either selective or thorough. And the section that I know from my own forebears, Scandinavian & Northern European of the upper Midwest in the late 19th century, is not actually accurate.

No way am I reading all the text. I'm paging through, getting what I can, but so far I've not even discovered anything that is *either* new to me, *or* sufficiently interesting, to prompt me to do further investigation.

Oh, and it's from 1995, so, yeah, not current.

dnf May 2021