with pioneering regional studies on the Mormon culture area (1965), Texas (1969), and the Southwest (1971), as well as three chapters on New York State's historical geography in a volume edited by John Thompson (1966).

His most ambitious and well known work is the four volume series "The Shaping of America" (published 1986, 1993, 1998, and 2004), published by the Yale University Press. Meinig dedicated 25 years of his academic career to this research, which offers a detailed overview of the