Free Press, Boston Globe report on Historical Atlas of Maine publishing award
The Free Press and The Boston Globe reported on the winners of the 2016 Maine Literary Awards, who were announced in May by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. The Historical Atlas of Maine received the Excellence in Publishing Award. The folio also recently won the best Book/Atlas category and was named Best of Show by the international Cartography and Geographical Information Society. In February, the atlas received the 2016 American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. The Historical Atlas of Maine, the result of a 15-year scholarly project led by University of Maine researchers, offers a new geographical and historical interpretation of Maine, from the end of the last ice age to the year 2000. The volume was published in 2015 by University of Maine Press, a division of UMaine’s Raymond H. Fogler Library. It was edited by UMaine historian Richard Judd and UMaine geographer Stephen Hornsby, with cartography by Michael Hermann. The Boston Globe reported the atlas is “chock-full of fascinating aspects of the state’s history.” “It examines industries as disparate as logging, textiles, paper, shoes, and canned corn, and charts European settlements, environmental degradation, and population shifts, among other trends,” the article states.