Early intellectual influences on D. W. Meinig: a former student's fond memories.(Report)

The Geographical Review | July 1, 2009| | Copyright

As an undergraduate at Syracuse University in the early 1960s from a family whose parents had not graduated from college, I stumbled around in my first two years trying out a number of majors: journalism, psychology, and history education. Only because I had to take a course called "Cultural Geography" for a high school history education major did I discover geography. I had been excited about maps as early as first grade, but I never imagined that one could study geography in college. So it was with considerable curiosity that I attended my first geography lecture presented ...

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