In Richard White’s article “What is Spatial History?," he discusses the turn to spatial history and the ways in which it can be used as a research tool to enhance historical scholarship. His article was fascinating and really got me thinking about different spatial history projects I’ve seen. Two that come to mind is “Visualizing Emancipation”, run by Scott Nesbit and Edward Ayers at the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, and The Geography of Hate, run by Monica Stephens at Humboldt State University.
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I posted these in the Zotero group, but I thought I would add them here as well. I think these are two interesting examples of spatial history. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City is an example of using a spatial history component to bolster an argument. We have been talking about Digital History and whether it needs to make an argument all semester and I think _Mapping Decline _is a great example of a project that does that.
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*This was blog post was originally posted on the Center for History and New Media’s blog as part of my Digital History Fellowship at George Mason University.
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