{"id":479,"date":"2013-10-15T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T04:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-03-10T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:07:12","slug":"visualizing-the-costs-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/visualizing-the-costs-of-conflict","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the costs of conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"485\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/visualizing-the-costs-of-conflict\/cw-in-four-minutes\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes.png\" data-orig-size=\"509,361\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CW in Four Minutes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes-300x212.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-485\" src=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes-300x212.png\" alt=\"CW in Four Minutes\" width=\"210\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/files\/2013\/10\/CW-in-Four-Minutes.png 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Those interested in &#8220;seeing&#8221; the Civil War from a perspective more dynamic than the one available in textbooks and monographs should check out this Google-powered interactive map of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/lifestyle\/special\/civil-war-interactive\/civil-war-battles-and-casualties-interactive-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battles and Casualties of the Civil War<\/a> commissioned in 2011 by the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. The Flash-based animated sequence does an excellent job of portraying the scale and scope of casualties associated with the America&#8217;s most divisive and bloody conflict. [Note, keep an eye on lower-right portion of the map to catch Sherman&#8217;s &#8220;March to the Sea&#8221; and subsequent campaign in the Carolinas.]<\/p>\n<p>Still more impressive is an earlier (2007) production commissioned by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alplm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum<\/a> in Springfield, IL. &#8220;The Civil War in Four Minutes&#8221; is a riveting, animated feature portraying the outbreak and progress of the war via shifting battle lines, flare-ups marking major battles, and a rising body count. Visitors to the Lincoln Library and Museum see the events unfold on a giant screen. Those unable to make the (highly recommended) trip can watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JN1VX_g8JZM\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/blog\/visualizing-the-costs-of-conflict\">Reply to this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those interested in &#8220;seeing&#8221; the Civil War from a perspective more dynamic than the one available in textbooks and monographs should check out this Google-powered interactive map of the Battles and Casualties of the Civil War commissioned in 2011 by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,11],"tags":[32,29,34],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-on-line-resources","tag-civil-war-2","tag-film","tag-on-line-resources-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6FjHf-7J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/usmilitary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}