Readings
- Richard White, “What is Spatial History?” Stanford University Spatial History Project (2010) http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29
- Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps, 2nd edition (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1996)
- Anne Knowles, “A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg,” Smithsonian Magazine (June 27, 2013) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Cutting-Edge-Second-Look-at-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html. [Online interactive map, with Dan Miller, International Mapping Associates (Alex Tait, Tim Montenyohl, Judy Nielsen), and ESRI (Allen Carroll, Lee Bock, James Cardona), funded by Smithsonian Enterprises.]
- Ian Gregory and Alistair Geddes, editors, Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), Introduction and Chapter 2.
Activities
Guest Instructor, Lincoln Mullen
Morning (9-12)
Lincoln’s slides for the day, and folder of sample data sets.
- Mapping and visualizing change over time
- Demo: StoryMapsJS
- Critique a map, http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/sex-ratios/
Afternoon (1-4)
- Hands-on Session: Google Map Engine Lite, http://maps.google.com
- Hands-on Session: Google Fusion Tables, https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232
- Hands-on Session: Georectify a map using NYPL’s Map Warper or Harvard’s Map Warper
- Demo of Mapping with D3
- Hands-on Session: Install Geolocation on Omeka sites (A Handy Guide for Installing Omeka Plugins) and an Animoto screencast to accompany the written instructions.
Sites
- Digital Harlem, http://digitalharlem.org/
- Stanford Spatial History Project, http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/index.php
- David Rumsey Maps, http://www.davidrumsey.com/
- Old Maps Online, http://oldmapsonline.org/
- Massachusetts State Library, insurance atlases
http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html - 1938 atlas of Boston:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastatelibrary/sets/72157634969569499/
Tools
- StoryMapsJS
- Google Mapshttp://maps.google.com
- Google Fusion Tables, https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232
- D3
- World Map Warp, http://warp.worldmap.harvard.edu/
Reference
- Lincoln Mullen, “These Maps Show How Slavery Expanded Across the United States,” Smithsonian.com, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/maps-reveal-slavery-expanded-across-united-states-180951452/?no-ist
- Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?,” Spatial Humanities (Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia), http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/