Geography Documents

Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about aerial recon photos taken over Auschwitz-Birkenau, during the war, which were reexamin...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about aerial recon photos taken over Auschwitz-Birkenau, during the war, which were reexamin...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

Greek hoplites were infantrymen who fought their battles in tightly packed formations.  They took their name ("hoplite") from the "hoplon," a shi...

The western edge of Attila's empire was the Rhine River, in today's Germany.  Click on the map to more closely examine it.

At a time when the fastest mode of transportation was by horse, Attila and his Huns conquered a vast expanse of territory.  To the east, his empi...

Ice Blink - The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition, by Scott Cookman, tells the story of Franklin's final (and fatal) effort to ...

Bookcover image of In Search of the Trojan War, by Michael Wood.

This book, by Professor Paul F. Diehl, analyzes six different peacekeeping case studies.  He helps to explain why such efforts can succeed and wh...

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