March 28
Read and Discuss:
- Will Thomas and Edward Ayers, “The Difference Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities”
- Richard White, “What Is Spatial History,” Working Paper, Stanford, California, 2010.
- Stephen Robertson, “Putting Harlem on the Map,” Writing History in the Digital Age Spring 2012 version.
- David J. Bodenheimer, “”The Spatial Humanities: Space, Time, and Place in the New Digital Age,” in Weller, History in the Digital Age
- Digitizing Mount Vernon
- Smithsonian X3D
Blog post:
Examine in detail at least one historical GIS project (e.g., HyperCities, Digital Harlem, Mapping the Republic of Letters, Virtual Jamestown)
On your blog, discuss how this project contributes to historical scholarship