09 - Mapping History: "Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping"

Authors

Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-20-2010

Abstract

Scholars have increasingly called for new tools that would enable them to organize the large digital collections that are increasingly available online. In a previous era of massive documentary publishing, historians at the Carnegie Institution and elsewhere found that the Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States provided a helpful addition to the large collections of suddenly accessible documentary records. This paper takes its cue from those efforts to suggest that an online atlas would be a useful complement the recent large-scale digitization of historical documents.

Recommended Citation

Nesbit, Scott, "09 - Mapping History: "Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping"" (2010). The Past's Digital Presence, February 19-20, 2010. 10.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/beinecke_pdp/10