A historian and a geographer—Patrick Rael and Aaron Gilbreath—have teamed up this semester to teach a new class for Bowdoin, one that has students investigating questions about nineteenth-century US ...
“Historians and history students are used to working with words on the page, says Professor of History Patrick Rael, “but for many years I had been wanting to incorporate a more spatial and ...
A Swiss map at the printing office of the Federal Office of Topography in Wabern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. GAETAN BALLY/Keystone/Corbis Efforts to explain what GIS actually is almost invariably ...
GIS and history / Anne Kelly Knowles -- Creating a GIS for this history of China / Peter K. Bol -- Teaching with GIS / Robert Churchill and Amy Hillier -- Scaling the dust bowl / Geoff Cunfer -- "A ...
GIS or Geographic Information System today affect all of our lives with GPS systems and Google Maps that make our lives easier every single day. This amazing science today helps with getting ...
Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...