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Tag: GIS

Building the Archives of Disaster

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Mills

I’ve taken over as the Executive Producer of the Hurricane Digital Archive. Like our September 11 Digital Archive, the HDMB is set up to collect the digital record of a disaster–in this case the disaster generated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It would be nice to believe that “if we build them, they will come”…

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Ending Geographic Illiteracy in our Lifetime

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Mills

One of the most common complaints I hear from history educators about our students is that they are so geographically illiterate. What, exactly, is meant by “illiterate” is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, but the point is well taken that our students often display a lower level of geographic literacy than we would…

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The Rise of GIS in History

Posted on April 18, 2006 by Mills

I’ve been blogging a good bit about my own interest in the use of GIS in historical research and teaching. So I thought I’d pass along a little bit of data about the rise of GIS in the historical profession. I supervise a postdoctoral fellowship program here at GMU and in that capacity run the…

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Lewis and Clark in GIS

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Mills

Here’s another History-GIS website that offers some intriguing possibilities. The Lewis and Clark Across Missouri site offers visitors a virtual tour of the portion of the Lewis and Clark expedition that took place in the Show Me State. A particularly good application of the possibilities of GIS is the interactive map of the outbound and…

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