Week 2

Maps & Gazetteers

READINGS

1. Shannon Mattern, “Gaps in the Map: Why We’re Mapping Everything,” Words in Space (September 18, 2015)
2. Digital Scholarship Lab, Mapping Inequality
   1. N. D.B. Connolly, LaDale Winling, Robert K Nelson, and Richard Marciano. “‘Big Data’ Meets Social History in the Story of Redlining,” In The Routledge Companion to Spatial History, ed Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere (Routledge, 2018)
3. Humphrey Southall, Ruth Mostern, and Merrick Lex Berman, “On Historical Gazetteers,” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 5, no. 2 (October 1, 2011): 127–45.
4. Ryan Horne and Ruth Mostern, “Landscapes in Motion: Cartographies of Connectivity and the Place of Physical Geography in the Environmental and Spatial Humanities,” in Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, eds Charles Travis, Deborah P. Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, Arlene Crampsie (London: Routledge, 2022), 470-89.

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Library of Congress Digital Collections: Maps
  • Sanborn Maps
• New York Public Library Digital Collections: Maps & Atlases
• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
• World Historical Gazetteer
• Pleiades
  • “Conceptual Overview”
  • “Concepts and Features”

TOOLS

• Mapwarper
  • SSRC tutorial
  • Lincoln Mullen tutorial
  • NYPL Mapwarper
• Georeferencer (David Rumsey Collection)
• Georeferencing in QGIS [only if you have experience with QGIS]
  • Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen, and Daniel Macfarlane, “Georeferencing in QGIS 2.0,” The Programming Historian
  • Fred Gibbs, “Using Historic Maps with QGIS”