There are some events in American history that have impacted Americans in very profound ways.
As an American, some of these events I’ve experienced personally, such as the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks where I was actually living in New York City when it happened. While others I know only through history books.
All these events have shaped the psyche of a nation. As I reflected on these transformational events, I was struck by the sense of struggle and progress – as well as the tragedy and triumph.
Below is a mindmap I created to visually represent these events (with dates):
Click on the mindmap to enlarge:
You can also click on the links below for more information on each event:
Revolutionary War
Louisiana Purchase
California Gold Rush
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
First Transcontinental Railroad
World War I
Women’s Suffrage
Prohibition
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Social Security Established
World War II
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
First Presidential Address on TV
Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks Bus Protest
Interstate Highways Created
“Little Rock Nine” Army Escort
Cuban Missile Crisis
MLK “I Have a Dream Speech”
Kennedy Assassination
MLK Assassination
Landing on Moon, Apollo 11
Kent State Shootings
Watergate Scandal
Roe v. Wade Ruling
Fall of Saigon
Space Shuttle Explosion
Oklahoma City Bombing
9/11 Terrorist Attack
First Black President Elected
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Is this map not just a list?
Hello Ed,
Thanks for the reply to my post.
It is true the Information in any mindmap can be turned into a list. For example, Mindmanager, an industry standard mindmapping program, can change any mindmap into a linear outline or list with the click of one button.
The advantage of representing this “list” of events in a mindmap is that 1) You know immediately what all the items are related to (i.e. the central topic) and with a linear list the only way you know is by putting the title at the top of the list – but as you go down the list you can easily lose track of the title; and 2) As a visual image, you can spatially see the relationship of any particular event to another event in time. One can, however, relate these events in a linear list as well, but it is more difficult (in one’s mind) to do. To test this, open my mindmap and then open another instance of the linear list I provide in the post. See if you are able to visually relate the items to one another in the same way.
So, items in a mindmap can be represented as a list or an outline. But spatially there are some real advantages to seeing relationships as a mindmap rather than a list – primarily because our minds think in pictures. -Chance