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- The Donner Party & The Franklin Expedition…
- William Seward & Sarah Palin: A Friendship to the End?
- Good old Russia
- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 7
- In the Middle
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- Finding the way…
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- A Piece of Imperial Pie
- Expansion vs. Isolation
- Anthropological Mash-up
- Mash-Up: Ladies & Fashion & Shite, 1732-2016
- Swipes #49: Thorny Situations
- Swipes #48: History repeats itself repeatedly
- Stanford University Field Trip
- If you find yourself in Chicago this month…
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- Thanksgiving Post
- A Lament on Academic Spec Work: * Cry Cry *
- Everything you never wanted to know about parenting
- Remembering 13 September 1759
- Celebrating Six Years of Friendship, or That Time I Made a Friend at the O-Train Station
- Giving Birth in a Baby-Unfriendly Hospital
- Guest Post: Jillian Klean Zwilling on Feminism
- Hiatus
- Norman Rockwell Swipes
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ghosts of Former Indigenous Inhabitants of Stanford University”
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- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
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- “Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
- Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
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- Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
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- Monsters, Part 1: Hydra Round-up
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- Now & Then / Then & Now
- Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
- What is a geographer?
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- April Fooling in Map Form
- Colossus (Part III)
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- Part IV: John & Jonathan, BFFFL
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- “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
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Tag Archives: nature
NEH Day 1: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
A while back, I promised to blog about the NEH “Mapping Nature Across the Americas” summer institute that I participated in at the Newberry Library during the summer. Please forgive the sporadic nature of these posts – I have just … Continue reading
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NEH: Application for “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
This is the first of what might wind up being 20 posts summarizing an awesome summer at the Newberry Library for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar “Mapping Nature Across the Americas.” For curious parties, or future applicants, I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged beaver, envhist, environment, environmental history, geography, Harold Innis, history, mapping, nature, NEH, NEHsummer, newberry library
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NEH: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas” teaser
We got up to some really cool stuff this week at the Newberry Library “Mapping Nature Across the Americas” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer seminar (including an excursion to the exotic locale of Lamont, Illinois!). For now, I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, geography, history, mapping, nature, NEH, NEHsummer, newberry library
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