William Robert Shepherd (12 June 1871 in Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

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 – 7 June 1934 in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

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) was a U.S.

United States

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 cartographer and historian

Historian

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 specializing in American and Latin America

Latin America

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n history.

In 1896, Shepherd made his PhD at Columbia University

Columbia University

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. He then studied in Berlin and finally became professor of history at Columbia University. He is best known for his Historical Atlas, published in several editions during the early twentieth century.

Works

• Historical Atlas. New York
  New York
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  , Henry Holt and Company
  Henry Holt and Company
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  , 1911.
• The Hispanic Nations of the New World: Our Southern Neighbors. New Haven, Yale University Press
  Yale University Press
  Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
  
  , 1919.
• Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921.
• Historical Atlas. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
• Latin America. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
• Historical Atlas. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1926.

See also

• :Category:Historical maps by William R. Shepherd

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