Susan Schulten

Professor of American History, University of Denver

Susan Schulten teaches American history at the University of Denver, and is the author of A History of America in 100 Maps, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, and The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950. She uses old maps to tell new stories about history, and her research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Photo of professor Susan Schulten. This image is a head shot, showing Susan in front of a red plain background. She is has long reddish-brown hair that is parted on her right side, and she wears rectangle-shaped eyeglasses. She is pictured here wearing a black button-up shirt and a silver pendant.
Susan Schulten

Written by Susan Schulten

  • Photo of a white clock face with thin black roman numerals. The clock is in pieces, and all of the small cogs that make the clock function are scattered around in the area around the clock face. The hands on the clock face are missing.

    The Past Is Present

    Every generation sees itself at the center of history, and Americans in 2020 were no different. But as time passed, many were disappointed to realize that change was less profound than they had hoped. Still, it might have been comforting to learn that they were part of a much longer effort to define their nation.