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24 votes
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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Popping the bag: What happens when a group, once powerful, is suppressed or disbanded? Where do its members go?
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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." đ
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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Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle
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An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure.
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Journey to EPCOT Center: A symphonic history
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Early anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica and the Aztecs
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A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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A portrait of Tenochtitlan
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"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
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OcomtĂșn: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
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The Mexican state does not live up its inheritance
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mappingâmany for the first time
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What is Day of the Dead?
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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Feminisms in Mexico: From particularism toward a concrete universalism
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Maya ritual cave âuntouchedâ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
7 votes