A History of America in 100 Maps

AN UNSETTLED PEACE 241 The previous map shows us an official narrative of the Vietnam War, one in which the United States acted ...

242 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1912 the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener theorized that the world’s continents—initia ...

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244 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite. The news of Sputn ...

AN UNSETTLED PEACE 245 by the Lipton Company. In a creative series of images, the noted illustrator George Zaffo visualized each ...

246 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1985 Abraham Verghese began to practice medicine in Johnson City, a town of 50,000 near ...

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248 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS As shown on the previous page, the physician Abraham Verghese used maps to understand the o ...

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250 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Americans remain highly mobile. On average, nearly one in seven moves each year—to a new bl ...

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252 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS From 1945 to 2000, the nation’s population doubled from 140 to 281 million. Much of that in ...

AN UNSETTLED PEACE 253 lost residents. From 1980 to 2000, however, its population quadrupled, as did the Latino share of that po ...

254 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 protected the African American right to vote after a ce ...

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256 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen men hijacked four separate airplanes to comm ...

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258 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS AFTERWORD: THE ROAD AHEAD If this volume seems eclectic, it is so by design. To showcase th ...

AFTERWORD: THE ROAD AHEAD 259 the same way as we see and hear. They then process this information in real time in order to move ...

260 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS ENDNOTES AND ADDITIONAL SOURCES pp. 2–3: Image courtesy of the F. D. R. Presidential Librar ...