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Recorded April 18, 2024
Christian Koot, author of "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herman’s Chesapeake "(2017), and Deborah Hamer discuss how maps were made, what was distinct about the Dutch tradition of mapping, and how maps were much more than neutral depictions of borders and terrain.
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Recorded April 18, 2024
Christian Koot, author of "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herman’s Chesapeake "(2017), and Deborah Hamer discuss how maps were made, what was distinct about the Dutch tradition of mapping, and how maps were much more than neutral depictions of borders and terrain.
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![World War II // The Citizenship Project [E06]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Qj5dI8mx5g/mqdefault.jpg "World War II // The Citizenship Project [E06]
Those who take the U.S. Citizenship Test must understand the reasons behind the United States’ involvement in World War II, why the U.S. was initially neutral, and what happened as a result of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The New-York Historical Society Citizenship Project offers free civics test preparation classes for green card holders. Learn more at https://www.nyhistory.org/citizenship-project
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