{"id":345,"date":"2009-11-18T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historicalwebber.mossiso.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:02:39","slug":"poster-session-at-the-history-of-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2009\/11\/18\/poster-session-at-the-history-of-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster Session at the History of Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the year I was asked to participate in a poster session for the History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting<\/a>. I have done a few things with maps, so I was asked to share resources and ideas for using maps with teaching history.<\/p>\n

Not too many people came by, so I only spoke with two people. I had this list of resources for working with and teaching with maps:<\/p>\n

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History and Maps<\/h3>\n

Selected Websites<\/h4>\n

http:\/\/chnm.gmu.edu\/worldhistorysources\/unpacking\/mapsmain.html<\/a> (CHNM\u2019s site on using maps in the classroom)
\nhttp:\/\/echo.gmu.edu\/search\/node\/map<\/a> (A list of map resources on the web, collected by GMU\u2019s Echo project)
\nhttp:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/gmdhtml\/<\/a> (Library of Congress Map Collections)
\nhttp:\/\/www.besthistorysites.net\/Maps.shtml<\/a> (A long list of map related websites for teaching history)
\nhttp:\/\/explorethemed.com\/Default.asp<\/a> (Historical Atlas of the Mediterranean)
\nhttp:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/<\/a> (Tons of maps sponsored by University of Texas at Austin)
\nhttp:\/\/www.flu.gov\/whereyoulive\/healthmap\/<\/a> (US Gov. Flu Map)
\nhttp:\/\/www.unc.edu\/awmc\/index.html<\/a> (Ancient World Mapping Center)
\nhttp:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/<\/a> (Hundreds of posts about strange maps. Very good discussion starters.)<\/p>\n

Selected Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Brown, Lloyd Arnold. The Story of Maps. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
\nBruckner, Martin. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
\nField Museum of Natural History, and Newberry Library. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
\nKnowles, Anne Kelly, and Amy Hillier. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. Pap\/Cdr. ESRI Press, 2008.
\nPickles, John. A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World. London: Routledge, 2004.
\nTurnbull, David, and Deakin University. Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
\nVirga, Vincent, and Library of Congress. Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n

And this Keynote playing on my laptop:<\/p>\n

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