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I LOVE these maps!And so do my students.I would like to see more resources like this from the people who made this resource - particularly on world history maps (6th Grade) and others.

great hands on maps for history
This is a great tool for homeschoolers or those seeking to make a map hands on so the children can see and touch what happened in history.
My children loved making the maps and talking about them.This solidifies what we've already learned.Highly recommend!

Great Hands on History Project
I'm using this with 4th through 6th graders. My only regret is that there are not more books like it or more maps in it.

American History
Great for kids and older Grandma's and Grandpa's who just want to review history, the part they didn't live, quickly before the grandkids start asking questions they don't have the answers to.Very informative.

Wonderful resource for all of U.S. History, very effective!
Why just read about where people traveled? Make your own map of it! This is such a wonderful product, I wish there was one for World History so my children could visually follow Alexander the Great or Marco Polo on his journeys at younger ages.

This is not a difficult craft book, it is quite easy and well worth it. My 7 year old daughter loves it. ... Read more

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A fascinating, noteworthy, and beautifully illustrated book about Native American maps, "Another America" opens a window on the North American continent as it was understood and experienced by its original inhabitants. Each map serves as a focal point for a narrative on the traditions and experiences of the people involved in its creation. 90 illustrations, many in color.Amazon.com Review
The Europeans who conquered the Americas and their descendantswere not the first to map the hemisphere, museum curator Mark Warhuswrites in this fascinating, richly illustrated study of NativeAmerican cartography. Indian maps--made on buffalo skins, rocks, bark,and, later, paper--claimed territorial rights, explained treatiesamong nations, delineated trade routes, and showed the locations ofresources. Many of those maps wound up in dusty attics and the backshelves of museums, where Warhus has hunted them out; his stories offinding these lost treasures are as illuminating as hisinterpretations of what might be called pre-scientific ways ofgraphically describing the land. These maps, he writes, are ofimportance today not only for their own sake, but also as evidence ofhistoric holdings in current claims over lost territories. ... Read more

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can't seize the land before it's been described
This is a story of dispossession and of cultural memory. Mark Warhus reveals an astonishing legacy of native American cartography. Most of the maps are snapshots of important moments in the collision of two cultures. Some of these maps are the absolute last artifacts of tribes who have disappeared, such as the maps of Shanawdithit (Nancy) the last surviving member of the Beothucks (or Red Indians of Newfoundland).

Other maps demonstrate the deep ties to tribal lands once lost but more recently regained.

Native American mapmaking is intertwined with oral history. Therefore, these maps are also historical treasures. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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"The authors write authoritatively and crisply . . . . How to use maps in teaching is spelled out carefully, but the authors also manage to sketch in the background of American mapping so the book is both a manual and a history.Commentaries are sprinkled with stimulating new ideas, for instance on how to use bird's-eye views and country atlases in the classroom, and there are didactic discussions on maps showing the walking city and the impact of the street car.

"An extraordinarily wide range of maps is depicted, which makes for good browsing, pondering and close study. . . . This is a very good, highly attractive, and worthwhile book; it will have great impact on the use of old (and new!) maps in teaching.As well, this is a tantalizing survey of mapping the United States and will whet the appetites of students and encourage them to learn more about maps and their origins."--John Warketin, Cartographica ... Read more

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Sea Charts and satellite images
I was interested in this book for the variety of images and planned to use it for course material.The quality of the reproduced images I found to be inadequate, and so I didn't read the text.It looks like an interesting book, but if you are going to base a book on visual images the reproductions need to be good enough to see the details, especially of the larger scale maps. ... Read more

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Revolutionary Maps
I myself collect many "Early Maps," call them what you will.This book truly gives you a look at the beauty of our country America. ... Read more

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This is the first book to present rare and seldom-seen maps made by Native Americans (NA). These maps open a window on the North American continent as it was understood and experienced by its original inhabitants. The book brings to life the people, the places, and events of this NA history. Each map is the focal point for a narrative on the traditions and experiences of the people involved with its creation. The historical and cultural context of the maps is used to illuminate the web of human, animal, natural, and spiritual relationships that shaped the NA world. Illustrated with beautiful color reproductions of the maps and pictures that reflect contemporary life and culture. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more