April 7, 2016
Dr. Bill Hudson invited Nate Bander, Admission Outreach Coordinator, to share a blog post he wrote about how MPA faculty members use maps in their classrooms.
At Mounds Park Academy, students learn how maps tell a story.
Take, for example, a map that plots the mean center of the population of the United States from the first census in 1790 to the 1940 census at the dawn of the second world war.
In 1790, the mean center of population rested comfortably in Kent County, 23 miles east of Baltimore Maryland. Makes sense, right? Most of the population recorded in the census resided on the eastern seaboard.
Fast forward 150 years. The mean center of population has pushed 603 miles to the southwest, landing precariously in Carlisle, Indiana, waiting to leap across the border into Illinois on its southwesterly march. Read More