From 1900 to 2018, when you visualize a country that headlines American newspaper headlines, it looks like this

In order to visualize how "attentional countries" changed with history as "the American people have collective consciousness to one country at all times," The Pudding got the news The national flag list shows the change of the country where the headline was declared.

The World through the Eyes of the US
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The following shows the country flagged with the American newspaper heading with the national flag between 1900 and 2018. The upper side of the figure is 1900 years, the lower side is 2018 years, and it is becoming clear at a glance which country's attention the American people focused on the trend in history.

Cutting out from 1900 to 1931 is like this. Overall the UK is quite large, but before and after the First World War it is almost a German flag.

On the left side of the screen is an example of the headline published in that year ... ...

As you scroll the screen, the year you look for changes automatically. For example, in 1904, in February the heading "The merit of yellow theory , the French writer marks Russia as a liberator of white people". What kind of news is this ...?

There was a footnote on the right side of the screen. It seems that the trend of Russia was drawing attention in that respect because this time overlaps with the Russo-Japanese War.

Click on the flag to indicate which country it belongs to.

Where there is a display of "+1" in some places ...

There seems to be a country with the same number of headlines. In September 1907 headlines of France and Britain were equal.

Germany from August 1914 until June 1919 is one color Germany.

Then again the news of Britain and France again ... ...

During the period of World War II Japan's headline also increased, but it was not as much as "the German one color" of the First World War.

When the Cold War begins, the Russian flag appearance rate increases much.

The Vietnam War itself is regarded as the start date in November 1955, but after the assassination of President Kennedy in the American newspaper, headlines continue after President Lyndon Johnson started large-scale military intervention in the Vietnam War It began. Although this figure is based on the archive of the New York Times, it is gray color in 1964 whether there is no data.

The Vietnam War will continue until 1975, but as the President Nixon withdrew the US Army in 1973 following the Paris Agreement, the news value seems to have declined. After that, various countries such as Cambodia, Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uganda, Iran, Poland and many other countries will decorate the page.

The Japanese flag will increase in the first half of the 1990s, but since the Iraq war in the 2000s almost the Iraqi flag monopolized almost over the years.

After that, China is the center of the headline in place of England.