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Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink (2020)
Alex Hidalgo re-creates the colonial experience in Latin America with mapmaking, astronomy and a scriptorium by candlelight.
Alex Hidalgo, associate professor of history and director of undergraduate studies, reviews old maps in his favorite place on campus, the Special Collections reading room on the third floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library. Under Green’s guidance and with the aid of modern glassware, stirring rods and liquid reagents, Hidalgo and his students attempted to re-create iron gall ink — the same kind used to pen the Declaration of Independence. “I turn out the lights, and I have my students copy by candlelight samples of colonial Spanish manuscripts using rag paper — the type used in the early modern era — and the iron gall ink and the handmade quills they made during the lab.”
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