Book
Gossamer Network
2021
Cameron Blevins
Typology category
interactiveISBN-13
9780190053673
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Cameron Blevins
Publication year
2021
Entry last updated
2025-09-08Publisher's description
Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent
one of the most dramatic reorganizations of people, land, capital, and
resources in American history. Paper Trails tells a new history of the
nation's western expansion by shining a light on the era's largest
government institution: the US Post.
Experimental aspects:
This is a companion website to Cameron Blevins, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West (Oxford University Press, 2021). Yan Wu built and designed the visualization, Cameron Blevins wrote the content, and Steven Braun provided consultation on its layout. It was completed over 2018-2019 with support from the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks, Northeastern University's Digital Scholarship Group, and the Northeastern University History Department.