American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States which combines cutting-edge research with interactive mapping techniques. Hosted by the University of Richmond, American Panorama includes several projects which examine United States history through a critical lens and foreground the lasting impacts of racially-based policies. Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America visualizes hundreds of Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps created between 1935 and 1940, and reveals the ways in which cities were “graded” for potential home buyers along racial lines. Renewing Inequality: Family Displacements through Urban Renewal, 1950-1966 visualizes the impact of federal government government programs that provided funding for cities large and small to raze “blighted” or “slum” neighborhoods.
