This is excellent and helpful. (I also loved historical atlases as a kid.) I often use these maps of rates of travel from NYC from the digitized Historical Geography of the US. Once I projected the blank map on the big screen, then had students come up and put post-its where they thought 1 day, 1 week, 1 month were, before revealing the real map (“real” I guess). It helped them to calibrate their own understanding of historical distance. https://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/138/a/
This is excellent and helpful. (I also loved historical atlases as a kid.) I often use these maps of rates of travel from NYC from the digitized Historical Geography of the US. Once I projected the blank map on the big screen, then had students come up and put post-its where they thought 1 day, 1 week, 1 month were, before revealing the real map (“real” I guess). It helped them to calibrate their own understanding of historical distance. https://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/138/a/
Wow that's an amazing resource and a *fantastic* teaching idea. I'm going to copy it - thank you David!