If you still use snail mail here in the U.S. you probably know that the cost to mail a first class letter within the U.S. went up to $0.41 today. At moments like this, a little historical perspective never hurts. Just be glad you didn’t live in Germany during the hyperinflation of 1923 when the…
Tag: World History
High Quality Historical Maps Online
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection from Cartography Associates offers a wealth of cartographic resources to the historian–both for research and for teaching. The collection, which is heavy on the Americas, but includes historical maps from around the world, uses a proprietary software platform to allow web users to view files that are often extremely…
Images of Genocide
I have now posted into my Flickr site the majority of my images from the Cambodian genocide sites in and around Phnom Penh. As I wrote in an earlier post, I think it’s important to document what these sites look like now, because the concession to run them has been sold to a foreign tourism…
Mapping Disasters
With a great deal of media fanfare, Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched a collaboration that allows Google Earth users to see and interact with the unfolding genocide in Darfur. The Google Earth layer produced through this collaboration taps into the resources of the Holocaust Museum, giving the user access…