Below you will find four maps, covering 4 different presidential speeches serving as benchmark samples for a broad period of time spanning 1864 to 1920, with points mapped on each representing specific articles covering the presidential speech. You can interact with the dateline by selecting a date, or drag the edge to select multiple dates. my recommendation is to select the first date, and drag the sliding side bar day by day to visualize the spread of the news over time.
Newspaper articles on President Lincoln’s 1864 speech (fig. 1)
red points represent articles from the HIST 490 database with year equal to 1864 and with article text search containing the search keyword “war”. State map approximate to the time period in question courtesy Carto resource files.
Newspaper articles on President Cleveland’s 1885 speech (fig. 2)
red points represent articles from the HIST 490 database with year equal to 1885 and with article text search containing the search keyword “trade”. State map approximate to the time period in question courtesy Carto resource files.
Newspaper articles on President T. Roosevelt’s 1901 speech (fig. 3)
red points represent articles from the HIST 490 database with year equal to 1901 and with article text search containing the search keyword “Mckinley”. State map approximate to the time period in question courtesy Carto resource files.
Newspaper articles on President Wilson’s 1920 speech (fig. 4)
red points represent articles from the HIST 490 database with year equal to 1920 and with article text search containing the search keyword “war”. State map approximate to the time period in question courtesy Carto resource files.
the .csv files with the raw article information pulled from the database and formatted for input into CARTO maps can be in this folder. Please note that due to a limitation of excel and CARTO, the dates of the 1864 and 1885 had to be changed to 1964 and 1985 in this data; however, results were not affected by this alteration, and all other columns such as the article number remain intact and can be used to find the original article(s) in the Chronicling America database.