Schedule

Week 1: Introductions (1/20)

Part I: Colonial North America

Week 2: Maps and the Early Americas (1/27)

• Barbara Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings” (pp. 11-33)
• J. B. Harley, “New England Cartography and the Native Americans” (pp. 169-195)
• Herman Moll, “Map of North America According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations” (1715)

Week 3: Lab #1 - Designing Maps (2/3)

• Sign up for a free account with CartoDB.
• Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information:
  • Chapter 1: Graphical Excellence (pp. 13-27)
  • Chapter 4: Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign (pp. 91-105)
• Andrew Wiseman, “When Maps Lie”

Week 4: Spatial Connections (2/10)

• Come to class with the map you have selected for your first paper
• Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82:
  • Introduction (pp. 3-11)
  • Chapter 5: Entierros (pp. 133-166)
  • Chapter 7: Connections (pp. 196-223)
• Lab #1 Due by 4pm

Part II. The U.S. Civil War

Week 5: Slavery (2/17)

• “The Forced Migration of Enslaved People” American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History
• Susan Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Chapter 4: Slavery and the Origin of Statistical Cartography (pp. 119-155)
• William C. Reynolds and J. C. Jones, “Reynolds’s political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states” (1856)
• Frederick Law Olmsted, “The Cotton Kingdom and its Dependencies” (1861)
• Map Analysis Paper Due by 4pm

Week 6: Lab #2 - GIS and Spatial Analysis (2/24)

• Complete the tutorial: Fred Gibbs, “Making a Map with QGIS”, 26 October 2015.

Week 7: Battlefields and the Civil War (3/2)

• Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature
  • Chapter 5: “The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War” (pp. 199-227)
• Anne Knowles, “A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg” (move through the entirety of the visualization’s narrative)
• Lab #2 Due by 4pm

Week 8: Emancipation and Reconstruction (3/9)

• Gregory Downs and Kate Masur, “There’s No National Site Devoted to Reconstruction—Yet”
• Gregory Downs and Scott Nesbit, Mapping Occupation (read the entirety of the visual narrative)

Review Paper Due 3/14 by 8pm

Spring Break (3/12-3/20)

Part III: Race, Space and Modern America

Week 9: Jim Crow Then (3/23)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”

Week 10: Lab #3 - Gathering Spatial Data (3/30)

• Alvaro M. Bedoya, “Big Data and the Underground Railroad”
• Nathan Yau, “Explorations of People Movements”

Week 11: Jim Crow Now (4/6)

• Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Segregation Now: The Resegregation of American Schools”
• Theodore R. Johnson, “What If Black America were a Country?”
• Lab #3 Due by 4pm

Week 12: #BlackLivesMatter (4/13)

• Interview with Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter [YouTube]
• Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, Meredith D. Clark, Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice, pages 5-12.
• Alia Wong and Adrienne Green, “Campus Protest Roundup”

Part IV: Wrapping Up

Week 13: Final Project Working Session (4/20)

Complete the following tutorials:

• Miriam Posner, “Up and Running with Omeka.net”
• Miriam Posner, “Creating an Omeka.net Exhibit”

Week 14: Final Project Presentations (4/27)

• Email a link to your website by the beginning of class

Final Project and group evaluations due by Tuesday, May 3rd, 11:59PM