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http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/atlas/atl_ah2_m002.html This atlas shows all of the battles between the British and the Americans in the south during the Revolutionary War between the years 1776 and 1781.  The different colors of the arrows represent movements by the British and American … Continue reading →

For this week’s map of the week, I decided to choose a map that I was particularly familiar with and has a certain relevance to me.  As long as I can date back my lineage, my entire family has lived … Continue reading →

Atlas for the Blind The David Rumsey Map Collection has preserved and digitized this unique 1837 atlas of the United States.  Made by Samuel Gridley Howe to help children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind, … Continue reading →

GeaCron Home Page GeaCron is a site dedicated to visualizing historical events around the globe.  With viewing selections such as time period, area, or event, one can truly get a sense of the changing dynamic of political power throughout our … Continue reading →

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-geography-of-genius Taking an abstract piece of data and turning them into something that can be looked at and understood easily is what cartographers strive for. Frank Jacobs did this when he produced The Geography of Genius for the book Human … Continue reading →

http://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/digital-universe/ This atlas is really interesting because it’s mapping something that we don’t know very well. It might be a stretch but it can be directly related to what we are learning in class. This atlas certainly doesn’t reproduce reality. … Continue reading →

http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/ This blog has some really interesting maps and some funny posts. One of my favorite maps on this blog is one that shows how skewed mercator maps can be. I knew these maps were skewed, but not to this … Continue reading →

This map, published in 1956 and produced by Research Institute of America, shows the USSR’s attempts to extract resources from around the world during the early days of the Cold War.  Research Institute of America was founded in 1946 as … Continue reading →

Maurice Gomberg is the author of this interesting map.  We don’t know a lot about Gomberg besides that he was teacher from Philadelphia and that he self published this map.  Gombergs ideas are radical and interesting. He is a pacifist … Continue reading →

  This map, though simple, establishes a sense of internationalism and power through its visual rhetoric incorporated in intentional choices and silences about its perspective on world oil consumption. At first it appears a very basic map: it’s a rather … Continue reading →