{"id":217,"date":"2022-03-22T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-10-29T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:21:32","slug":"last-unit-2-workshop-maps-and-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/2022\/03\/22\/last-unit-2-workshop-maps-and-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Unit 2 Workshop: Maps and Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Begin with the Instagram feed of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bplmaps\/\">Leventhal Map Center<\/a> of the Boston Public Library; every day they post an interesting historical map.<\/p>\n<p>The BPL Leventhal Center also has a digital exhibition up now, through April 2024, titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leventhalmap.org\/digital-exhibitions\/getting-around-town\/\">Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out some of these map-related links: <\/p>\n<p>A 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com\/post\/80174674596\/us-states-labelled-with-ways-each-state-ranks-the\">Map of US with states labeled by how they&#8217;re ranked &#8220;worst&#8221;<\/a> (Maps on the Web Tumblr &#8212; which also posts at least one map a day)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/city-of-women?mbid=social_twitter\">What if the NY Subway Map stops were all renamed for women?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windfinder.com\/#3\/39.5000\/-98.3500\">Current wind patterns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/regional-differences-united-states-2018-1\">One Author Reimagined North America and its internal regions as 11 nations in 2012<\/a> &#8211; how well has his analysis held up over the last ten years? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/files\/2013\/11\/upinarms-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/files\/2013\/11\/upinarms-map.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2022 was the last redistricting year, which happens every decade in every state. <a href=\"https:\/\/districtr.org\/\">Try your hand at redrawing Congressional districts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/case.law\/gallery\/witchcraft\">Mapping &#8220;witchcraft&#8221; in case law<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slavevoyages.org\/blog\/tag\/intro-maps\">Map slave voyages during the era of the transatlantic slave trade<\/a> (SlaveVoyages.org) <\/p>\n<p>You might also want to spend some time with a few other links related to historical maps or mapping as a historical research method. A 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/drsarahbond\/2017\/10\/20\/how-is-digital-mapping-changing-the-way-we-visualize-racism-and-segregation\/#271c4b3c33fa\">article in Forbes<\/a> magazine talks about how digital mapping helps us understand racism and the history of segregation, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/civilwardc.org\/\">Civil War Washington<\/a> (NEH \/ Univ of Nebraska Lincoln)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportunityatlas.org\/\">The Opportunity Atlas<\/a> using Census data<\/li>\n<li>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.richmond.edu\/panorama\/redlining\/#loc=5\/39.1\/-94.58\">Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cklibanoff.medium.com\/public-memory-and-street-names-in-the-south-who-gets-remembered-de8f7cb9e1e8\">Whom do street and place names in the South commemorate?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/whose-heritage-map\">Where are Confederate memorials located?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/justice.tougaloo.edu\/sundown-towns\/using-the-sundown-towns-database\/state-map\/\">What and where are &#8220;sundown towns&#8221;?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An especially expansive and beautiful digital library of maps (at high resolution) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/\">David Rumsey Map Collection<\/a> (Stanford University) <\/p>\n<p>Stanford also hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/republicofletters.stanford.edu\/\">Mapping the Republic of Letters<\/a> project from Dan Edelstein and Paula Findlen, tracing (and mapping) the trajectory of thousands of letters from the pens of European Enlightenment writers. Here&#8217;s a brief video explaining the project: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nw0oS-AOIPE?si=mrwYsbb7irEQPnxa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other innovative projects work with recreating or layering historical maps to create digital environments of the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historypin.org\/en\/\">HistoryPin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclio.com\/web\/\">The Clio App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pleiades.stoa.org\/\">Pleiades Ancient Gazeteer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harvard-cga.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/View\/index.html?appid=b38db47e08ca40f3a409c455ebb688db\">Roman World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/welikia.org\/explore\/mannahatta-map\/\">Welikia Project<\/a> (&#8220;New York City&#8221; in 1609)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/nulab\/projects\/\">The Work of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks<\/a> (Northeastern)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin with the Instagram feed of the Leventhal Map Center of the Boston Public Library; every day they post an interesting historical map. The BPL Leventhal Center also has a digital exhibition up now, through April 2024, titled Getting Around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/2022\/03\/22\/last-unit-2-workshop-maps-and-mapping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}