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Mapping Racism And Assessing the Success of the Digital Humanities

This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece (now behind a paywall) written by Prof. Timothy Brennan. In it, the … More

CCP, DH, digital humanities, gabrielle foreman, gis, HGIS, Maps, puerto rico, racism, rob shepard, segregation, University of Iowa

To The Black Sea And Back: The Late Antique Dura-Europos ‘Shield’ Map

  Dura-Europos is an ancient site on the Euphrates river in modern-day Syria. The objects excavated at the site by … More

ancient rome, Archaeolgy, Armenian History, Arrian, color, Euxine, geography, Greek, HGIS, Maps, polychromy, roman, Yale

September 12, 490 BCE: Remembering The Battle of Marathon On The 2,506th Anniversary

Over on the Forbes blog, I have posted a day-by-day reconstruction of the events leading up to and including the … More

ancient greece, ancient Persia, athens, battle reconstructions, Herodotus, Maps, marathon, Plutarch, running

Reforming the Map: Saint Paul, Sea Monsters, and Biblical Maps

T.E. Lawrence (i.e. Lawrence of Arabia) once commented that “the printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of … More

cartography, geography, Maps, newberry library, ortelius, printing press, renaissance, saint paul, sea monsters

Mapping the Underworld: Space, Text, and Imaginary Landscapes in Antiquity

One of the foremost painters of the mid 5th century BCE, Polygnotus, was allegedly commissioned by the Cnidian people to … More

caesar, cartography, hell, inferno, Maps, space, spatial humanities, tolkien, twin peaks

Pleiades in the Classroom: A Mapping Webinar

Join us online at 10 am – 11:30 am (ET) on Friday, May 29th for a webinar broadcast from the Center … More

ancient, digital humanities, gis, Greek, islamic, mapping, Maps, Pleiades, roman, webinar
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