Many of our maps and information for commentary came from THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT history site at:
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/AtlasesTable-fContents.html
West Point also publishes a wonderful set of books with attendant maps on World War II, Europe, and the Pacific in separate volumes (one book is text and another is a complete set of maps) and World War I. And the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LIBRARY Web site at:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical
Wikipedia can be a wonderful resource for information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
will take you to the important WWII battle of Kursk. Type in World War II, and Wikipedia will take you through the entire conflict. The same is true for any era of history from prehistory to the cold war.
The Hyperwar site discusses the US Navy in World War II:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USNatWar
US War Photos has an enormous number of excellent photos from WWII
http://www.uswarphotos.com/WWIIPhotos/index.html
The Library of Congress in online and has a vast number of resources
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
This is a link directly to the University of Texas maps of Europe by Perry
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html
This is a link directly to the University of Texas maps of WWII by Perry
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_ww2.html
This is a link directly to the historical maps by William R. Shepherd
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1923.html
The National Atlas has good resources covering historical as well as modern maps
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Figure 1 Neolithic Cave Painting 30,000 BC
Figure 2 Cave Painting 30,000 BC, Valtorta Cave
Figure 3 Sargon of Agade—first conquer
Figure 4 Egypt & the Middle East
Figure 5 Babylon, The Hanging Gardens
Figure 6 Harappan Civilization
Figure 7 Maurya Empire
Figure 8 Battle of Marathon
Figure 9 Persian Wars—Xerxes Attacks
Figure 10 Alexander’s Empire
Figure 11 Hannibal at Cannae
Figure 12 Roman Empire at its height under Trajan—115 AD
Figure 13 Barbarian Invasions of Rome 100-500 AD
Figure 14 Holy Roman Empire.
Figure 15 The Mongol Empire about 1253
Figure 16 Jan van Eyck, The Ancolfini Portrait, Mid 1400s
Figure 17 Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-1675
Figure 18 Drawing of Renaissance Ship
Figure 19 Spanish and Portuguese Empires Black Equals Portugal
Figure 20 Colonial Empires 1800
Figure 21 Aztec Capitol of Tenochtitlan
Figure 22 Meso-American Cultural Sites (Maya)
Figure 23 Jin (North) and Song(South) Dynasties 1142 AD
Figure 24 Japan, Korea area map
Figure 25 Justinian’s Empire (Byzantium) 527-585 AD
Figure 26 Byzantine Empire 867 AD
Figure 27 Islamic Caliphate to 750 AD
Figure 28 Trenton 1776
Figure 29 1776 Washington Crossing the Delaware
Figure 30 Saratoga September 1777
Figure 31 Route of the Spanish Armada
Figure 32 Napoleon’s Empire 1810
Figure 33 Monet, Hotel de Roches Noires, Trouville, 1870.
Figure 34 Westward American Expansion—Early 1800
Figure 35 The Mexican American War
Figure 36 American Civil War
Figure 37 Principle Campaigns of the Civil War—1: Split the South down the Mississippi, 2: Split the South across Georgia, 3: Defeat Lee in Virginia, 4: Maintain a tight naval blockade
Figure 38 Ft Sumter Bombardment—1861
Figure 39 Gettysburg,—Pickett’s Charge—arrow labeled 3
Figure 40 Grant’s Overland Campaign
Figure 41 Sherman Takes Atlanta—1864
Figure 42 Tesla, father of the modern world
Figure 43 The British Empire in 1923
Figure 44 Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912
Figure 45 Munch, The Scream, 1893
Figure 46 Drawing of Pickett’s Charge, Gettysburg
Figure 47 Photograph of Confederate Dead at Antietam
Figure 48 Europe 1914
Figure 49 The Schlieffen Plan
Figure 50 Trench System, from English Army Manual 1914
Figure 51 Lack of Movement on Western Front (Shaded Areas with arrows Show Changes in the Front)
Figure 52 Tanks on the Western Front, Vimy 1917
Figure 53 The Fall of France 1940
Figure 54 Southern Approaches to Europe
Figure 55 Operation Barbarossa 1941
Figure 56 Pearl Harbor Air Raid, December 7, 1941
Figure 57 Japanese Advance on Singapore
Figure 58 Japanese conquest of the Philippines 1942
Figure 59 Japanese assaults on Bataan 1942
Figure 60 Japanese Conquest 1942
Figure 61 German Summer Offensive 1942
Figure 62 Invasion of Italy 1943
Figure 63 Italy—Allied Assaults on Gustov Line and Anzio 1943-4
Figure 64 American Dual Offensives Against Japan
Figure 65 Betio (Tarawa) Map
Figure 66 Marines at Tarawa
Figure 67 New Guinea & Rabaul Offensives
Figure 68 US Assault on the Philippines 1944
Figure 69 The D-Day Plan
Figure 70 D-Day Plus Six
Figure 71 D-Day and Beyond
Figure 72 Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944
Figure 73 Soviet Operations 1943-1944
Figure 74 Planned Assault on Japan, Op Olympic & Coronet
Figure 75 President Ronald Reagan
Figure 76 Map of Korean War
Figure 77 MacArthur’s Advance North
Figure 78 US Marine March from Chosen
Figure 82 F-86 Saber
Figure 80 Vietnam & Ho Chi Minh Trail
Figure 81 US Helicopters lift off
Figure 82 Marines in Vietnam
Figure 83 B. Marden, Vine, 1992-1993