This Veterans Day marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and the birth of mapmaking at National Geographic.
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How World War I launched mapmaking at National Geographic
During World War I, the National Geographic Society began producing original maps that gave readers context for the events around the globe.
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By Becky Little
PUBLISHED November 9, 2018
In the summer of 1914, Americans began reading news accounts of a conflict that would soon be called the Great War—and that would draw the United States in three years later. (See also: The United States Enters World War I).
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But it was National Geographic’s maps that quickly helped Americans grasp the sweep of a conflict so vast that it would later become known as the First World War.
“People who followed the war at all followed it by reading newspapers...and maps were a very important way to make sense of these faraway places [and] strange names,” says Robert Poole, a former executive editor at #National_Geographic magazine and author of a book on the history of the magazine.
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