William Robert Shepherd

William Robert Shepherd (12 June 1871 in Charleston, South Carolina – 7 June 1934 in Berlin, Germany) was a U.S. cartographer and historian specializing in American and Latin American history.

In 1896, Shepherd made his PhD at Columbia University. 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, Henry Holt and Company, 1911.
• The Hispanic Nations of the New World: Our Southern Neighbors. New Haven, Yale University Press, 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

References

• Encyclopædia Britannica article

External links

• Works by William Robert Shepherd at Project Gutenberg