Category: Geography & Mapping
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On mapping
“Maps are not territory; they are spaces, spaces to be crossed and recrossed and experienced from every angle. The only way to understand a map is to get down into it, to play at the edges, to jump into the center and back out again. We need to trace and retrace its lines by […]
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Queers (in DH) Read This
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Interview with David Bodenhamer
In this video, I interview David Bodenhamer, the founding Executive Director of The Polis Center and Professor of History at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, about spatial humanities and the Digital Atlas of American Religion. Prior to his appointment, Bodenhamer was Professor of History and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi (1976-1988). He worked to craft […]
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Walking through Virginia’s Revolutionary History
I am very fortunate to live within a close radius of many diverse historical places across the state of Virginia. On September 26th, I went for a long walk around the grounds of Gunston Hall, the former home of George Mason, one of the “founding fathers” of the United States of America. […]
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Art and Civilization I
Art that concerns the nature of civilization has never been more relevant, with the climate and COVID-19 crises. I will compare in this series two works of art from two different time periods: the early nineteenth century (Thomas Cole’s 1830s series The Course of Empire), and the early twenty-first century (Chiho Aoshima in the […]
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KU Digital Humanities Forum 2019
The 9th Annual University of Kansas Digital Humanities Forum “Bodies | Justice | Futures” was held at KU on October 3 – 4, 2019. Opening Keynote: Janet Chávez Santiago, Oaxaca, Mexico, “Indigenous Language and Culture Visibility in the Digital Age: Examples from Zapotec Activism,” Oct. 3 Janet Chávez Santiago discussed the challenges and rewards of piloting […]
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Current Research in Digital History CFP
Call for Papers Current Research in Digital History 2019 March 14, 2020 — George Mason University, Arlington, VA Get the CRDH 2020 CFP as a PDF The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the third annual Current Research in Digital History conference. Submissions should offer historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase […]
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Place and Space in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon
In the introduction of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” she writes: After three days, they were incarcerated in the barracoons at Ouidah (Oh-we-dah), near the Bight of Benin. During the weeks of his existence in the barracoons, Kossola was bewildered and anxious about his fate. Before him was a thunderous and […]
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Mapping and Geocoding, Part 2: Map Warper and ArcGIS
Mapping 101: Aligning Historical Maps and Visualizing Geographic Data Selecting a map. I was fortunate to find a gorgeous, high-resolution image of a historical map of Paris on Wikimedia Commons. The image is provided by the dealer Geographicus Rare Antique Maps. The Parisian firm Hachette published the map, titled Nouveau Plan de Paris Divise en […]
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Mapping and Geocoding, Part 5: Historical Parisian Street Data Set
A View into the Past Open-source data. A group of scholars created the website GeoHistoricalData to share their interactive historical maps of Paris and France with other researchers. The website features maps and data for Paris and its suburbs (1789 – 1950) and France (1747 – 1950). I exported the data set for Paris street […]