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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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Juneteenth: A 99-year-old celebrates Underground Railroad quilts
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Juneteenth: A visual history
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Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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Lux Radio Theater - Tonight Or Never (1937)
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Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon code breaker
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Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper
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A Texas horned toad once survived thirty-one years in a time capsule
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: their relatives were CIA assets
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Bob & Ray For the Truly Desperate (1946~1988)
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The engineering marvel built to defend against Americans - The grisly history of the Rideau Canal
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Playing God - Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2017)
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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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How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
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Uncharted territory: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
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Disney's Animatronics: A living history
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The history of slipping on banana peels | Pretty Good, episode 14
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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A history of US cabinet appointments ...and why they matter
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How China is like the 19th century US
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Navajo code talker who helped allies win World War II dies aged 107
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Robert Caro on the art of biography
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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Review: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
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Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
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9/11 attacks in realtime (dashboard) 7:46am-12:00pm
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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How the KKK scammed its members for cash
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure.
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American reconstruction was sabotaged. But what if it hadn't been?
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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When the US CIA messes up
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