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Eight Interesting Aspects: The Biggest Little Battle in American History - Ron Gibbs
In this exhibit's DOT story, Dr. Ron Gibbs takes us through a 1777 British map of the "biggest little battle in American history." The battle involved fewer than 4,000 soldiers, but it saved the cause of American independence at one of its lowest ebbs.Ronald S. Gibbs, M.D. is a physician, map collector, medical researcher, and author at Stanford University now serving as the president of the California Map Society. He has written several articles on 18th-century military medicine, as well as two novels about the American Revolution: The Long Shot: The Secret History of 1776 and The Rogue's Plot: The Untold Story of 1777.You can see more of his work at https://ronaldsgibbs.com/about-american-revolution.
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CMS Conference June 29, 2024 - California Map Society
Click here Tom Paper's organizing slides for the CMS Spring Conference, held June 30, 2024 at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford.
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Eight Interesting Aspects - The Last Continent Explored: Slavery, Commodities, and Peril - Ken Habeeb
Kenneth Habeeb is a writer and map collector who has contributed pieces for Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society. His collecting interests include maps of Africa and, more recently, of China during the Opium Wars.Today, he presents "Africa, According to Mr. D'Anville," an extraordinary and at times bizarre snapshot of European beliefs about Africa in the decades before widespread European conquest on the continent.Created and presented by Ken Habeeb.Adapted and edited by Andrew Gu, Pixeum Intern for Summer 2024.keywords: khabeeb
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Making Race in Early American Art and Maps - Andrew Gu
What is race? How does a person come to see intelligence, virtue, or faith written on another person's skin? The answers lie in the fact that human beings need to learn how to think in terms of race. The maps of early American colonization let us glimpse ideas formed during a collision of continents, when human beings from opposite sides of the Atlantic first attempted to understand—and exploit—one another. Their caricatures and convenient omissions paint a picture not of clear racial categories but of a world in which Europeans and Americans alike constructed ”race” using gender, lifestyle, and other categories of difference. This exhibit was initially created for the California Map Society 2024 summer conference on June 29, 2024. You can follow the exhibit story used for the CMS presentation by clicking the green circle with a 1 above this description.
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