Week 3

Quantitative Spatial Analysis (Historical GIS)

READINGS

1. Karen Kemp, “Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities,” in The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship, ed David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor Harris (Indiana University Press, 2010)
2. Colin Gordon, “Lost in Space, or Confessions of an Accidental Geographer,” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 1–22.
   1. Mapping Decline: St Louis and the American City
3. Geoff Cunfer, “Scaling the Dust Bowl,” in Placing History, ed Anne Kelly Knowles and Amy Hillier (ESRI Press, 2008)
4. Robert Schwartz and Thomas Thevenin, “Railways & Agriculture in France and Great Britain, 1850-1914,” in Toward Spatial Humanities, ed Ian Gregory and Alistair Geddes (Indiana University Press, 2014)

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Brian Page and Eric Ross, “Envisioning the Urban Past: GIS Reconstruction of a Lost Denver District,” Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2 (2015)
• Anne Knowles, “Mapping the American Iron Industry,” In The Routledge Companion to Spatial History, ed Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere (Routledge, 2018)
• Zephyr Frank, “Layers, Flows and Intersections: Jeronymo José de Mello and Artisan Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1880s,” Journal of Social History 41, no. 2 (2007): 307–28
• Sarah Collins, “A Visualization Tool for 1790s Charleston: Locating an Enslaved Population Using GIS,” Journal of Urban History 49, 6 (2023): 1342-1357, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00961442211048500.

SUGGESTED TOOL: QGIS

• [beginner] The Programming Historian tutorials:
  • “Installing QGIS 2.0 and Adding Layers”
  • “Creating New Vector Layers in QGIS 2.0”
• Jessica Otis, “QGIS”
• Fred Gibbs, “Making a Map with QGIS [3 tutorials]”
• [more advanced] Brandan Buck, “QGIS Tutorial,” Mapping Early American Elections,