By: Abigail Vandenberg Sit back and relax while looking over this week’s highlighted map. Lullabies are widely used to help children fall asleep at night. Every culture on Earth uses some form of lullaby because everyone on Earth goes to...
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by Jessie Woldstad For many, it’s considered to be the most beautiful time of the year–the world’s trees erupt into a vibrant display of oranges, yellows, and reds. As the days fall shorter and summer nears its end, trees prepare...
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By Ruqaiyah Zarook Throughout much of modern history, sanctions have been used to persuade, dissuade, and generally influence the behavior of governments for political ends, whether during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, the 2014 Crimean Crisis, or through the ongoing...
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By: Abigail Vandenberg International borders are widely accepted as immovable and ancient boundaries. Even within a twenty-first century atmosphere of innovations, progress, and change, the placements of land borders are revered as long standing and permanent. After all, the border...
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By Abigail Vandenberg Did you know that submarine fiber optic cables are currently enabling you to view this blog post on your screen? 99% of our international data today is transmitted by underwater cables. This new edition of TeleGeography’s Submarine...
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By: Samantha Hinton Strabo of Amasia was an early Greek geographer from Pontus and lived from roughly 65 B.C. to 25 A.D. In his key writing, The Geography, Strabo reviewed the ancient world. He completed this work around 7 B.C....
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By Samantha Hinton The Surging Seas Risk Zone Map is an online, interactive database that visually displays the interaction of Earth’s water and coasts by showcasing how projected sea level rise could affect certain areas. Created by Climate Central and...
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By: Kallie O’Donnell The Lines That Shape Our Cities StoryMap (created in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, The Science Museum of Virginia, and Esri) connects present-day environmental inequalities to their 1930s policy roots. The...
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By Samantha Hinton Susan Schulten, historian of 19th-century American cartography at the University of Denver, studies the maps of schoolgirls, or what she calls a “hidden part of American education.” Schulten explores the history of schoolgirl mapmakers in connection to...
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