At a snail's p(e)ace (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Bimrose - Familiar metamorphosis - 8 May 1953

Musical 1950s

Two maps to look for in this video, one in a series commissioned by Vanity Fair to represent a decade in VF's "Decades" series: The earlier map represents the Korean War and the later one shows our newest states. All in the 1950s: