“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 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 ...

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 ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) represent a revolution in the way spatial data can be captured, processed, analyzed, displayed, and stored for future retrieval. Maps have always been an essential ...