Molly Burhans, a liberal arts graduate of Canisius College, a Catholic college in Buffalo, is leading a major project to help the Catholic Church map its vast landholdings in order to help it fight climate change. David Owen of The...
The Digital Harrisburg Initiative continues to roll on at Messiah College. My colleagues are happy to announce the recent publication of an entire issue of Pennsylvania History journal devoted to the project. It contains essays by Messiah College faculty, students, and others...
Who lived in Boston in 1648? History professor Chris Parsons and his team at Northeastern University have initiated the “Birth of Boston” project. The centerpiece of the project is an interactive map of Boston in 1648 that allows users to...
This looks like a really useful website from Lincoln Mullen, Rosemarie Zagarri, and the folks at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: Mapping Early American Elections offers a window into the formative era of American politics...
Digital Harrisburg is a digital public humanities project created by students and faculty of Messiah College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology that explores the history and culture of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Read more about it here. Over...
Martin Brückner is professor of English and Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. This interview is based on his new book, The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 (Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2017). JF: What led...
The Newberry Library has produced a digital map that traces the “Luther Affair” through time and space. You can explore it here....
This is huge. We uses these maps for our Digital Harrisburg Project at Messiah College. Here is a taste of the press release: The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure...
If you are interested in digital history, digital mapping, slavery, or the history of Detroit check out Mapping Slavery in Detroit. Here is a description: Detroit is a fascinating American city with a rich and sometimes troubled history. Mapping Slavery...
We are glad to have Paul Bartow writing for us this week in Atlanta. This is Paul’s first visit to the AHA conference. He currently works as an American history research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. Here is his...
Paul Matzko of Penn State’s graduate program in history has written a post calling our attention to a fascinating database called the Association of Religious Data Archives. This is an amazing tool. If my experience is any indication, scholars of...
