What's New - February 2010

Shows the American colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are shown extending west to the Mississippi River. Numerous towns and forts are indicated, as are the locations of various Indian tribes.

Covers eastern and central Africa, from present-day Sudan south to Mozambique in the east, and eastern Niger south to Angola in the west. Prester John (also known as Presbyter Johannes) was a mythical Christian king believed to rule over a Christian kingdom in the Orient. Belief in Prester John lasted for several centuries up through the 17th century. The location of Prester John's kingdom shifted from the Orient to Ethiopia when Portuguese explorers believed they had found the kingdom in east Africa.

Shows the locations and distribution of the linguistic groups of American Indians across North America. This map originally accompanied the 1890 Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnology, by John Wesley Powell. The bureau was founded by Powell to organize anthropological research in America, and was later merged with the Smithsonian Institution.