Category: Geography
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Our Japanese Question
In 1921, a Harvard government professor warned that “There has never been a time of such uneasy and hostile feeling between the two nations” of the U.S. and Japan. 20 years later came Pearl Harbor. Albert Bushnell Hart noted that the animosity was a relatively recent development: Can two countries be found with a longer…
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Population Centre Moving East, Cities Lead
Several questions about U.S. population trends loomed over the 1920 Census. Here they were, along with their ultimate answers. Are we entering on a new period in which our proportionate increase in population will be less than in the past? Yes. The growth rate between 1910 and 1920 was +14.9%, the lowest on record up…
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Immigration Tide May Turn from West to East
As this 1917 article correctly predicted, many European immigrants to the U.S. later moved back to Europe after the conclusion of World War I. By some estimates, that number was almost one-third of European immigrants to America. However, “relatively few” German-Americans returned back to Germany. Immigration Tide May Turn From West to East: Millions of…
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River of Doubt Now on Brazil’s Official Maps
In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt — at that point a former U.S. president — trekked upon a previously unmapped tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. To honor his heroism, Brazil officially named the Rio Duvida (or River of Doubt) the Rio Roosevelt. Did the new name last to the present day? Yes it has. River…
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