Monthly Archives: October 2013

Team Map Presentation, October 22: How Communists Menace Vital Materials, 1956

Source:  https://blackboard.richmond.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-1007588-dt-content-rid-1115813_1/courses/201310_13467/Great%20Pretense%20HUAC%20Report.pdf “How Communists Menace Vital Materials” (1956), by the Research Institute of America and released by the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee), came out during the very heart of the Cold War. This map comes from an early think-tank, … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week 6 (October 21-27): The West Point Atlas of American Wars

The West Point Atlas of American Wars painstakingly catalogues American military history in great detail. The university library has the first two volumes in the series that span from the colonial wars through the Korean War. Each battle of each … Continue reading

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Map of the Week 6 (October 21-27): GDP Wealth

Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=169/ The gap between the world’s rich and poor is inconceivable. Worldmapper’s GDP Wealth map attempts to demonstrate the extent of this disparity by showing the shockingly disproportionate gross domestic product of each of the world’s countries, relative to each … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week 6 (October 21-27): The Historical Atlas of World War II

The Historical Atlas of World War II takes its audience back to one of the deadliest wars the world has ever seen. The change in economic, military, and political context during this wartime is shown through some of the maps and … Continue reading

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Map of the Week 6 (October 21-27): A Cartogram of the World’s Population

  A Cartogram of the World’s Population             David Salisbury, a well-respected geographer from the University of Richmond, said, “all maps are lies and are out-of-date the minute they are published.” Most would hear this statement when seeing a map … Continue reading

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Team Map Presentation, October 8: New World Order Map, 1942.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gomberg_map.jpg If you make a comparison between maps and literature, most maps would be like a biography in which the author presents reality. However, The New World Order map created by Maurice Gomberg, in 1942, is not like most Mercator … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week 5 (October 7 – 13): The Times Atlas of World Exploration

The Times Atlas of World Exploration transports the reader back to the world’s first civilizations and through a narrative of progress educates the reader on how the world we see today has formed since the beginning of time. A majority … Continue reading

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Map of the Week 5 (October 7 – October 13): Territorial Growth of the United States

Source: http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/print-collection/us-territorial-growth-map.html When the United States declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776, the country only consisted of thirteen colonies. In the matter of three centuries, the borders of the country expanded and transformed to create the fifty states … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week 5 (October 7 – October 13): Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases

Did you know that bacteria and viruses exist everywhere on Earth? Did you also know that only three percent of all microbes can harm you? Microbes can be extremely dangerous and even fatal despite them being microscopic and naked to … Continue reading

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Map of the Week 5 (October 7 – October 13): Africa in Perspective

  Maps are lies! They do not accurately depict reality; this is partly due to projection. Projection causes distortion in maps, which depend on the mapmaker. In the “Size of Africa,” map, created by Times Atlas, several other countries are … Continue reading

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