http://geog05.stanford.edu Prof. Martin Lewis Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:56:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download Lecture 5 via Tunes U in high resolution or, watch the YouTube version below. This morning the New York Times came out with a far bolder take-home message about the geographical implication of the 2008 election than I did last night in class.  As the Times headline puts it: "For ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=321 Download Lecture 4 via Tunes U in high resolution or, watch theYouTube version below. One of the biggest current issues in electoral geography concerns the voting patterns of affluent suburban counties.  I find it quite striking that the suburbs of Minneapolis vote more like the suburbs of Atlanta than the suburbs ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=313 Download Lecture 3 via Tunes U in high resolution or, watch theYouTube version below. As we saw in this week's lecture, the electoral geography of the U.S. was relatively stable from the Civil War until the 1930s (and to some extent until the 1950s), with the Northeast and Pacific coast generally aligning ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=299 Download Lecture 2 via Tunes U As we saw in class Monday night, the United States in its first 80+ years evolved from a country marked by a clear political division between a North/Coastal Federalist region and a South/Interior “Jeffersonian” region to one in which Jacksonian Democrats and Whigs were ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=281 Download Lecture 1 via iTunesU Welcome to the Geography of U.S. Presidential Elections. In this forum, we will discuss any aspect of electoral geography that you find interesting or pertinent. I have found from teaching several courses for Stanford Continuing Studies that members of the class often know more about particular ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=261 Starting Wednesday, October 15, you can follow The Geography of U.S. Presidential Elections in real time. To learn more about this timely Stanford University course, you can watch the introductory video below, or download it from iTunesU. And once the first lecture is posted, we invite you to join the ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=163 Instructor Martin Lewis Lecturer in History mwlewis@stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies 482 Galvez Street Stanford, CA 94305 continuingstudies@stanford.edu http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=35 Martin Lewis Senior Lecturer in History, Stanford University mwlewis@stanford.edu Martin Lewis received a PhD from UC Berkeley in geography. He is the author or co-author of four books, including The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (with Karen Wigen) and Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (with Lester Rowntree, Marie Price, ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=25 Required Reading 1. Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections, by Yan Mieczkowski. 2001. Routledge. 2. Beyond Red State, Blue State: Electoral Gaps in the 21st-Century American Electorate, by Laura Olson and John Green. 2008. Prentice Hall. Other Useful Works 1. Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, by ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=21 This is a five week course. You can find a new video each Wednesday, with the first appearing on Wednesday, October 15th and the last appearing on Wednesday, November 12th. Videos will be made available on iTunes and YouTube. The course will unfold as follows: Week 1 - October 15. The basic principles ... http://geog05.stanford.edu/?p=15