I decided to do an image overlay on Google Earth of the city where my family’s from. I played with it for a while and got it as close as I possibly could. Over time it’s natural for riverbeds to change shape and move, so I’m sure that’s what happened, and the old map is […]
Out of these three pages I found Hypercities to be the most usable and interesting. It was fun to go through different locations and see how they’ve changed and developed over the years. To start I just looked up the county of Fairfax. My dad used to have a huge map of the county and […]
Stanley Engerman, noted that much of the scholarship Pessen reviewed examined only either the North or the South. Few works were explicitly comparative, testing the similarities and differences across the sections. Another participant, Thomas Alexander, concluded with a discouraging, if accurate, summary: “there is still little agreement on how all of these [factors] interacted to […]
For my chart I decided to look up the percentage of men enrolled at GMU vs. the women. Some sites had varying information on the subject, but the average is 44/56: I found the time we spent in class going over how to make a chart using Google’s app was time enough for me. […]