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Special Collections - Mapping the “Red Menace
Cold War news maps
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Sorry, this event ended on Monday, August 11, 2008.
Where: UTA Central Library, 701 South Nedderman Drive, Arlington
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A new exhibit that examines maps published by the national news press in Britain and the United States is open in Special Collections. The summer-long exhibit Mapping the "Red Menace": British and American news maps in the early Cold War period, 1945 to 1955 looks at how each nation put foreign affairs into a geographic perspective. News maps in this exhibit were pulled from journals such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report as well as the British title Time and Tide.
The maps shown in these journals were a valuable medium for educating news readers on the dangers of the developing Communist threat and Cold War geopolitical events, while at the same time shaping public opinion of foreign places. Differing map portrayals often lead to powerful and conflicting notions of Cold War geopolitics and national security in the minds of American and English citizens.
The exhibit is a collaborative effort between UT Arlington Special Collections and Jeffrey Stone, Associate Professor of History at Tarrant County College. 'Mapping the "Red Menace"' is located on the sixth floor of Central Library and will be open from June 2 - August 11, 2008. It is free and open to the public.
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Event posted June 23, 2008
Last updated June 23, 2008
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