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“May even one day outstrip the history monograph”: AHR Digital History Reviews and Thoughts on the Status of the Field

by Jen Andrella | May 11, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post

In the latest issue of the American Historical Review (April 2020) brought to us by the American History Association contains an intriguing special feature of digital history reviews. One of the goals of the reviews section, the AHR claims, is to “broaden” the scope...

Project Launch: Mapping the Upper Missouri

by Jen Andrella | May 7, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post

I am so excited to announce the public launch of my project, Mapping the Upper Missouri: Visualizing Negotiation, Diplomacy, and Culture on the Northern Plains, 1801-1853. The story map and supplemental materials provide a geospatial history of the fur trade,...

Mapping the Upper Missouri: Visualizing Negotiation, Diplomacy, and Culture on the Northern Plains, 1801-1862: An Overview

by Jen Andrella | Mar 30, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post

Initially, this project began as an inquiry into the way a digital construction of space can offer new ways on thinking about cultural landscape, spatial politics, and boundaries. Based upon the first chapter of my dissertation, this digital rendition titled,...

Historical Research in the Age of Digitization

by Jen Andrella | Feb 5, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post

Earlier this week I read an article titled “Why Don’t Archivists Digitize Everything” by Samantha Thompson from the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives. Thompson thoughtfully provided both positive and critical reflection regarding archival digitization initiatives....

The Geospatial West: Georectifying Historical Native American Space

by Jen Andrella | Nov 21, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, Uncategorized

“An Indian Map of the Upper Missouri, 1801” derived from an original sketch by Ackomak-Ki, with later contributors Peter Fidler and J.G. Kohl (c.1850). To engage with the scale, see the LoC website. Earlier this week I came across an unusual map in the...
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