The Digital Past

Mapping

Before Class:

• Richard White, “What is Spatial History?”
• Read: Edward L. Ayers & Scott Nesbit, “Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South,” Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol 1 No 1 (2011): 3-24.
  • Explore: Visualizing Emancipation
• Explore: Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States
• Lincoln Mullen, “Data Maps,” Spatial History Workshop

In Class:

• Animal City
• “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America”
• Sign up for Carto
• Using either your own data or the sample datasets provided, create a map using Carto. Add annotations and labels as necessary to clearly community the subject and aim of the map.
  • Boston Gymnasiums
  • Other data sets
• Helpful Resources:
  • Carto documentation
  • Exploring Data with Widgets
  • Georeference Data
  • Publishing and Sharing Maps
  • Describing Data with Legends
  • Enabling Pop-Up Information Windows