{"id":109,"date":"2019-10-24T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/?p=109"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:00:46","slug":"unit-2-week-5-mapping-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/2019\/10\/24\/unit-2-week-5-mapping-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 2, Week 5: Mapping History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please Note:<\/strong> we will discuss Robert Gaddis&#8217;s book <em>The Landscape of History<\/em> on Nov 5 and Nov 7. You might want to start reading it this week; here are the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11oB4YMkz_PFeqx_QODq74hc0td6217OSt3PQ2SDmRjs\">Discussion Questions<\/a><\/strong> we&#8217;ll be use for our class discussion. Note that Nov 7 is the <strong>SAME DAY that your Paper #2<\/strong> is due, so plan out your time carefully so that you&#8217;re prepared with both on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>For the last of our &#8220;play in the sandbox&#8221; workshop weeks, we&#8217;ll look at maps and mapping. Maps are a fascinating set of sources that represent&#8211;and to some extent also determine&#8211;reality. A clip from the TV show <em>The West Wing<\/em> helps illustrate this nicely.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVX-PrBRtTY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Tuesday Oct 29<\/strong>, please read Stephens, <a href=\"http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/mse\/maps\/\">Making Sense of Maps<\/a> (like Making Sense of Letters and Diaries, it has multiple sections, please make sure you read the whole thing navigating with the red table of context box). <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We will not meet in class on this day<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 10\/31, bring laptops as usual<\/strong>, for our last Thursday &#8220;sandbox&#8221; session.<\/p>\n<p>I also recommend you check out the Instagram feed of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bplmaps\/\">Leventhal Map Center<\/a> of the Boston Public Library; every day they post an interesting historical map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Note: we will discuss Robert Gaddis&#8217;s book The Landscape of History on Nov 5 and Nov 7. You might want to start reading it this week; here are the Discussion Questions we&#8217;ll be use for our class discussion. Note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/2019\/10\/24\/unit-2-week-5-mapping-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fall19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}