How the States Got Their Shapes
Did you know that flying fish may be the reason Illinois will re-draw its state borders? Or that cell phone use by Pennsylvania’s Amish affects their state’s shape. Based on the book by Mark Stein, the History Channel’s series How the States Got Their Shapes explores these very questions. And with the help of host Brian Unger, this series goes beyond the classroom traveling to various locations, visiting historical and cultural sites, interviewing local experts and everyday people to address how landscape, language or natural resources have influenced the character of each state. Shop the History Channel for How the States Got Their Shapes DVDs, state quarters, books and more.
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- How the States Got Their Shapes (Paperback) Book
- An accessible history of how each of the fifty United States obtained their unique shapes offers insight into such topics as the super-sized geography of Texas, Oklahoma's panhandle, and Maryland's unusual layout, in a lighthearted chronicle that features complementary information on land… [ read more ]
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- How the States Got Their Shapes DVD
- We are so familiar with the map of United States, but do we know why our states look the way they do? Every shape on the map tells a great story about our past. Why is California bent? To cling on to gold. Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle? Because of shifting borders for slavery. Why does… [ read more ]
$24.95- $19.99
- How the States Got Their Shapes: Season 1 DVD
- When the founding fathers drew the first map of America, they confronted many of the same challenges that unite and divide us today. HOW THE STATES GOT THEIR SHAPES explores how our borders evolved--and continue to change--in response to religion, transportation, communication, politics,… [ read more ]
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- 6 Inch Prehistoric Globe
- Make learning fun with this Prehistoric World Globe. Both playful and educational, this remarkable tool offers lessons in geography and paleontology with prehistoric animal illustrations. Explore the Earth as it was millions of years ago. From triceratops and mammoths to brontops and… [ read more ]
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- The States DVD
- From your own backyard to the remotest points on the map, rediscover America – the strange, the beautiful, and the poignant – with this ultimate celebration of its most unique and wonderful places. Get the entir [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: A River Runs Through It DVD
- How water has literally shaped the States. The surprising history hidden in the blue, squiggly lines on the map: How the founding fathers might have made a mistake along the Georgia Tennessee border; how that boundary could actually change because of water; why Maine has so much -- and why… [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: Church and States DVD
- Ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England into such odd little shapes? And did the Civil War actually begin... in Kansas? [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: Culture Clash DVD
- Will rivalries within our states break them into pieces? Cultures compete against each other all over the map. In extreme cases, they can divide states in two. How did World War II preserve the shape of California? Will part of Maine break off and become Northern Massachusetts? And as new… [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: Force of Nature DVD
- How massive geological events helped create the American map. Long before the Founding Fathers drew the map, mother nature shape some states: how an asteroid created the border for three states and changed history; how glaciers plowed the great plains and how natural disasters continue to… [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: Living on the Edge DVD
- Local experts and everyday folks lead Unger to insights about some of America’s most baffling questions. How are flying fish threatening to re-draw the shape of Illinois? What does the use of cell phones by Pennsylvania’s Amish have to do with the shape of Illinois? What does the use of cell… [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: State of Rebellion DVD
- How did the most rebellious states took shape? How did they earn their outsized features and outspoken reputations. For instance, why does Montana looks like it took a bite out of Idaho? Why wasn't Texas broken up into five states? And why exactly do we have not one but two Carolinas? [ read more ]
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- The history of transportation hidden in the lines of the map. From canals to trains and cars, how getting around helped draw the American map. Why Chicago could have been in Wisconsin; why states out West or so big and boxy; and why we almost had a state called Forgottonia. [ read more ]
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off- How the States Got Their Shape: Use It Or Lose It DVD
- If you thought our borders were set in stone, you'd be wrong. Who stole a corner of Washington, DC? Is Ohio actually a state? And why isn't St. Louis our nation's capital? One thing's for sure -- our map could look very different. How did we create order out of so much chaos? With the vote. [ read more ]
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- How The States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover) Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of… [ read more ]
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- How The States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover) Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of… [ read more ]
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- How the States Got Their Shapes DVD Every line on the U.S. map tells a great story: California's border was bent to claw onto lucrative gold deposits... Oklahoma's panhandle reflects a shifting national baromoter for legal slavery... Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia's shared border traces… [ read more ]
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- We all live in the same country, so why do we sound do different? Its a matter of where you are on the map. Why didnt the southern accent exist until after the Civil War? How did California athletes end up coining so many new words? Why do we have so many different words for the same… [ read more ]
$24.95- $19.99
- How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines...
- Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark… [ read more ]
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- 1999 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2000 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2001 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2002 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2003 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2004 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- 2005 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- 2006 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- 2007 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $19.95
- 2008 Colorized Statehood Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. This state quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. In 1999, the United States Mint began commemorating each of the 50 states by issuing a special quarter. Each… [ read more ]
- $19.95
- 2009 Colorized Washington D.C. and U.S. Territories Quarters
- The most popular coin series in U.S. history just got better. The 2009 Washington D.C. and U.S. Territories quarter collection is brilliantly colorized to bring out every subtle detail of the engraver's masterpiece. Each quarter would be minted for 9 weeks only, after which the dies are… [ read more ]
- $19.95
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