NEW! EUROPEAN BUREAUS COLLECTION
From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the AP covered Eastern Europe
during the Cold War. Reporters rotated in and out of the Eastern bloc, writing about the declining influence
of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic re-structuring of the
former Soviet satellites. These collections are composed almost entirely of wire copy, which was saved by the
bureaus. The Vienna bureau files include copy documenting events in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, the former
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and the former Yugoslavia in the years 1952 to 2000 (date spans vary
by country). News releases from government news agencies are often interfiled. Subject areas include the
Austrian Independence Treaty (1955), the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the IAEA, United Nations, Kurt
Waldheim, Tito and the SALT talks. The Prague Bureau contains reporting on the Prague Spring (1968) and
ensuing Soviet invasion, the Solidarity movement which emerged from the 1980 shipyard strikes in Gdansk,
the rise of Lech Walesa, pro-democracy leader and first democratically elected president of Poland, and
Czechoslovakia's "Velvet revolution", the name given the peaceful end of communist rule in 1989. There is
also copy on the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s, and political and economic development of
Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet period. Wire copy from the Geneva Bureau covers a range of European
topics including the arms race during the Cold War.
MAPPING THE WORLD: MAPS AND TRAVEL
LITERATURE
The 19th century saw tremendous growth in maps and mapmaking as the field of cartography gained visibility
and professional standards. Mapping the world during this time period was driven by massive industrialization,
imperialism, and exploration. As people ventured further from traditional population centers, tourism created
a new market for reliable maps. Likewise, as colonialism was prominent, many maps of the time reflect the
colonial ambitions of the day. These same maps also offered perspective to a fledgling literary genre:
the travel diary.
With a series of searchable, historical maps at its core, Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
provides geographical images from areas spanning the globe.
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