Books and Articles

Fanelli, Sara. My Map Book. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Holmes, Nigel. Pictorial Maps. NewYork: Watson-Guptill Publisher, 1991.
Schulten, Susan. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Snyder, John Parr. Flattening the Earth; Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Online Resources

Basic map projections

• The Map Projection Home Page (Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York). http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/
• Map Projection Overview (Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder). http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.htm
• Carto Corner: Map Projections (The National Atlas of Canada Online) http://atlas.gc.ca/english/carto/cart003.html (Australian upside-down map)

Supplemental Images

Maps

• Canadian Pacific map. The Canadian Pacific Railway. Canadian Pacific Railways and Steamships Span the World. Buffalo, NY: J. W. Clement Co., 1937.
• Forlani map. Paolo Forlani. Universale descrittione di tutta la terra conosciuta fin qui (Venice: Forlani, 1562). Newberry Library call number: Novacco map 4F 13.
• German Propaganda map. Schumacher, Rupert von. "Ein Kleinstaat Bedroht Deutschland," (A Minor State Threatens Germany) in Zur Theorie der Raumsdarstellung. Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik 11. 1934.

Supplemental Text

• The new approach to modern warfare and future air travel. Rand McNally World Atlas, Premier Edition (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1944), pp. 12-13. Newberry Library call number: Rand McNally Collection, Atlases, World Atlas Premier Edition, 1944

Grades K-2
World Views handout

Grades 3-5
Canadian Pacific map
Forlani map

Grades 9-12
Map Analysis Sheet
German Propaganda map