William Robert Shepherd (12 June 1871 in Charleston, South Carolina – 7 June 1934 in

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) was an American cartographer and

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specializing in American and

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n history. In 1896, Shepherd completed his PhD at

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. He then studied in Berlin and finally became professor of history at

. He is best known for his ''Historical Atlas'', published in several editions during the early twentieth century. He is considered a pioneer in the field of Latin American history. Shepherd's address to the 1909 meeting of the

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was "probably the first time that a part of the program of the annual meeting was devoted to the history of other peoples in the Americas". In his remarks, he decried that in the United States the history of the western hemisphere focuses on the English colonies and ignores or disparages the history of Spanish, Portuguese, and French America. He called for a more balanced history of the Americas, stressing "That the history of the Spanish, Portuguese, and the French in America possesses an interest and a significance of its own, entirely apart from its relation to the 'Anglo-American' element."Shepherd, "The Contribution of Romance Nations", p. 67.

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*''Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives.''

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, 1907. *
Historical Atlas
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, Henry Holt and Company, 1911. *''The Story of New Amsterdam.'' New York, The

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, 1917. *''The Hispanic Nations of the New World: Our Southern Neighbors.''

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, 1919. *''Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors'', New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921. * *''Latin America''. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923. *''Historical Atlas''. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1926. *''Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary''. 1911

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Encyclopædia Britannica article

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* * 1871 births 1934 deaths American historians American cartographers Historians of Latin America Latin Americanists Columbia University faculty Writers from Charleston, South Carolina {{US-historian-stub

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