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Modern (1800 CE - 1950 CE)
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Map of the Union Pacific Railway
This 19th century map illustrating the many places one could travel on the Union Pacific Railway is the product of a multitude of choices made by the mapmaker.
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Tasveer Ghar (A House of Pictures)
This database would be most useful for instructors teaching modern South Asia and for students in college-level seminars.
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The Gall-Peters Projection
Unsatisfied by the distorted view of the world that dominated the Western mind in the form of the Mercator Projection, James Gall and, later, Arno Peters engineered a new map in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project
An outstanding feature of the site is access to high resolution images and 425 oral histories.
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Mediateca INAH
Mediateca INAH facilitates virtual engagements with over half a million interrelated digital reproductions of maps, paintings, sculptures, photographs, audio recordings, documentaries, books, as well as other textual primary sources.
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Palestinian Oral History Map
Drawing from thousands of hours of interviews from the Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA), the map provides a stunning visual representation of Palestine in the 1940s, bringing interviewees’ memories of their lost homeland to life.
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Marshall Islands Stick Charts
The Marshall Island stick charts represent a unique and non-Western tradition of mapmaking.
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Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers
The Library of Congress’ collection of Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers is a rich, important archive that keeps the stories of the community and their experiences alive.
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Res Obscura
Functioning primarily as the personal blog of historian Benjamin Breen, Res Obscura stays true to its by-line by being ‘a catalogue of obscure things’.
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