Geography K–12 · High school · Grades 9–10 · Full year

Geography and History: Why Borders Fall Where They Do

A full-year high-school course that reads world history through the land: the Rhine and the Rio Grande, the Pyrenees and the Andes, the Sahara and the steppe, the Channel and the Bosporus, the open plain that carried Napoleon and Hitler toward Moscow, and the treaty lines and survey chains that cut borders where nature drew none, each one studied on the map, worked with real numbers and asked the same question: what changed when the bridge, the railway, the road or the airplane crossed the barrier?