![]() held from 1904 to 1976, and the Philippines, which the U.S. ![]() maps to ignore former territories like the Panama Canal Zone, which the U.S. It was also common for earlier iterations of U.S. It also excludes the places that are still territories of the United States-Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. It’s not just because the map is missing Alaska and the peppering of the Hawaiian islands. ![]() In fact, he pointed out in a recent interview, it’s “only been a correct map of the country for three years of its history.” That’s the “logo map” of the country, writes Northwestern historian Daniel Immerwahr, and it’s not quite right. Picture a map of the United States and what do you see? From the two coasts that frame the mental snapshot up to the friendly mitten of Michigan and down to the staggered edge of Texas, you might be thinking of the contiguous states. ![]()
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