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Geographic Information Systems in Historical Studies

This is the main page of J. B. Owens' graduate-level course Geographic Information Systems in Historical Studies (History 610). HIST 610 is one of the required core courses of the History Department's new Master's degree program, which emphasizes Geographically-Integrated History and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Questions and comments about this course should be sent to OWENJACK _ at _ ISU.EDU.

• Course Syllabus, www.isu.edu/~owenjack/gishist/syllabus.html

• The Historical Geographical Information Systems (HGIS) Research Network, http://www.hgis.org.uk/

• Gateway for Historical Geographical-Information-Systems (GIS) in history, for Historical Cartography and for Historical Geography, http://www.his-gis.net/

• Ian N. Gregory (2003), A Place in History: a Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research, hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/gis/index.asp

• Geography Network, www.geographynetwork.com

• Geography Network (Data), www.geographynetwork.com/data/index.html

• Social Explorer (U.S. data), www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

• Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server, middleware.alexandria.ucsb.edu/client/gaz/adl/index.jsp

• GeoNames, www.geonames.org

• NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS), earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, dublincore.org

• Federal Geographic Data Committee, www.fgdc.gov

• David Rumsey Map Collection, Cartography Associates, www.davidrumsey.com/

• Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, online map collection, memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdh tml/gmdhome.html

• Tony Campbell's listing of large map image sites, www.maphistory.info/imageindex.html

• Color Brewer (selecting good color combinations for maps), www.colorbrewer.org

• North American Religion Atlas (Polis Center), www.religionatlas.org

• Vision of Britain through Time, www.visionofbritain.org.uk

• TimeMap (time-based interactive mapping), www.timemap.net

• MapWindow GIS (free, open source software), www.mapwindow.org/

• Gary Watry and Dan Ames, A Practical Look at MapWindow (free book for GIS self-study), www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=1246541&fBuyItem=5

• STELLA (systems simulation and modeling), www.iseesystems.com/community/support/FAQs.aspx

• You may learn more about the Department of History's intentions in offering its Master's degree program by reading this article written by its creators, Dr. J. B. Owens and Dr. Laura Woodworth-Ney: Envisioning a master's degree program in geographically-integrated history, Journal of the Association for History and Computing 8,2 (2005) [http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodworth.php].
• You may also wish to read the online version of an article about the program that appeared in the trade journal of ESRI, ArcNews (600,000 subscribers to the print version):
  Idaho State University Creates Innovative Program in History and GIS, ArcNews 27,3 (Fall 2005): 45. [http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html]

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