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- Finding the way…
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- Anthropological Mash-up
- Mash-Up: Ladies & Fashion & Shite, 1732-2016
- Swipes #49: Thorny Situations
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- Stanford University Field Trip
- If you find yourself in Chicago this month…
- Rich Thoughts
- Zines & Comics
- Thanksgiving Post
- A Lament on Academic Spec Work: * Cry Cry *
- Everything you never wanted to know about parenting
- Remembering 13 September 1759
- Celebrating Six Years of Friendship, or That Time I Made a Friend at the O-Train Station
- Giving Birth in a Baby-Unfriendly Hospital
- Guest Post: Jillian Klean Zwilling on Feminism
- Hiatus
- Norman Rockwell Swipes
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ghosts of Former Indigenous Inhabitants of Stanford University”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: Branner Library Tour
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Opening Up the Data Vault”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
- “Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
- Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
- Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
- Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
- Monsters, Part 5: Slimy, Serpentine Stephen Harper
- Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
- Monsters, Part 4: Dismemberment & Bugs
- Monsters, Part 3: Just your standard anthropomorphic snake post
- Monsters, Part 2: Two-headed Creatures (and more!)
- Monsters, Part 1: Hydra Round-up
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Monstrous Representations of Canadian Confederation and the American Civil War in Cartoons, 1861-1867
- Now & Then / Then & Now
- Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
- What is a geographer?
- What is an American, anyhow?
- April Fooling in Map Form
- Colossus (Part III)
- Swipes?
- Part IV: John & Jonathan, BFFFL
- Ireland Carto-Caricatures (Map Cartoons)
- Colossus (Part II)
- Colossus (Part I)
- Swipes #46: Ice Floes
- Draw the Shape of the Bay @ The Exploratorium in SF
- “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
- Prohibition & Other Booze-y Cartoons
- Composting 101, or “Stop thinking and just compost!”
- Vaccines: Not Turning Humans Into Cows Since Always
- “Self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France”
- Canadian Studies Talk at Berkeley on February 11
- Swipes #45: Turning Tail(s)
- Notes from Nelson Graburn’s talk on “Canadian Inuit Art”
- San Mateo County History Museum recap
- JE SUIS CHARLIE?
- Just another four chord song…
- Apologies, Round 2
- JE SUIS CHARLIE
- Apologies (Belatedly)
- Baby New Year!
- “All students do is stand around looking casual.”
- Christmas Panopticon
- Cave Paintings
- It’s a plane! It’s a car! It’s a… really large shoe?
- NEH Day 1: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
- Srsly?
- Shaking Down the Provinces
- ‘Tis the season to be generous
- Swipes #44: Disputed Waterways
- It’s not Thanksgiving in Canada (or “appalling ignorance”)
- Canada: America’s Hat?
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Four of Many)
- Swipes #43: Me-ow
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Two of Many)
- Remembrance Day
- Happy Birthday, A.J.M. Smith
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part One of Many)
- Dress Codes, Round 2
- Happy Halloween!
- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Cyclical Nature of Political History
- Shop Locally
- Speech Balloons & Thought Bubbles
- Part III: John Bull & Uncle Sam, a friendship to the end
- Policy Brief on Canada-U.S. Education Initiatives
- Part II: Representations of UK & US Cooperation
- Part I: Representations of the US & UK
- Representations of British Imperial Expansion
- Representations of US Imperial Expansion
- Hats off (and on)
- Yesterday was a big day for maritime history in Canada and the U.S.
- “[M]ap-obsessed, to a degree quite uncharacteristic of middle America”
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
As a new student member of the California Map Society, I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the Society’s conference at Stanford University on 2 May 2015. The speakers covered a range of fascinating topics. For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing … Continue reading
California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
As a new student member of the California Map Society, I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the Society’s conference at Stanford University on 2 May 2015. The speakers covered a range of fascinating topics. For the next few … Continue reading
“Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
A similar tale from two Bills:
Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
Once again demonstrating the old adage: “Same sh*t, different day.” UPDATE: Found another one (of many!)… “A democratic version of a famous saying,” Judge, 29 April 1893
Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
Sometimes, with perhaps one of the more infamous occasions being the American Revolutionary War / United States War of Independence / That Time England Lost Some Colonies, Uncle Sam and John Bull don’t get along: See also: – Part I: Representations of the US & … Continue reading
Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
You know how he got attacked by a giant serpent? Well, it’s a popular trope in cartooning as well as sculpture:
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Monsters, Part 5: Slimy, Serpentine Stephen Harper
Hey, I just write the headlines to be eye-catching. The cartoonists did all the real work:
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Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
Looking for an excuse to post about maps of Poland on a relevant holiday, I learned that there is a Constitution Day in Poland. (Thanks, Wikipedia! And Polish lawmakers.) A while back, while wondering around Los Angeles, I saw posters … Continue reading
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