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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Greenland documentary forces Danes to confront their colonial heritage – broadcast of Grønlands Hvide Guld made waves in February in both countries
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Framing Godland
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Conquest of the Incas
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David Ingram and the Lost Cities of Native North America
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Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests
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How a tiny pacific island became a global capital of cybercrime
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How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland
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The race to mine the bottom of the ocean
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Bubble Tea, also called Boba, is everywhere. But who made it first?
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The unmaking of India: How the British impoverished the world’s richest country
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Why so many baseball players are Dominican
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Native American child welfare law
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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Let's unpack some of America's most popular myths while I make early American cocktails. Our founding fathers sure knew how to have a good time.
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The biggest mapping mistake of all time
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The tiny US island with a British accent
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On language discrimination within Ukraine
@Voytsekhovskyi: A thread about why many Ukrainians speak Russian and why it was not actually their choice but rather consequences of about 400-year #RussianColonialism. Today we'll review just some examples of how Russia methodically was banning 🇺🇦language and forcing Ukrainians to forget it. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/HIuxrLFdpc
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The Woman King | Official trailer
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Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs - A new effort will add Indigenous history to historical markers across the state
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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Portugal’s insane plan to double its territory
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1819 Singapore
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Productive scab-picking: On oppressive themes in gaming
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What each nation wanted from the scramble for Africa vs what they got from it
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Why is Africa still so poor?
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An artists' group, criticized as vandals for dumping the bust of an 18th-century king into Copenhagen Harbor, says it wanted to draw attention to Denmark's role in slave trading
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African decolonization explained
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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Historic change to Advance Australia Fair, Australia's national anthem, in the 'spirit of unity'
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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Time to decolonise the internet
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Citizens in Greenland are voting on whether to keep a controversial statue of a Hans Egede, seen as a symbol of Danish colonialism
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"The protests began in the small province of Minnesota" - Thai Enquirer explain colonialist reporting in a few paragraphs
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Police in Greenland have detained a man in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint
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War, colonialism, and industrialism | The worldbuilding of Avatar
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The Stone Lion Racism Test - Who owns the Shisa?
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The lost colony of Roanoke
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