The Production of Space in Historic Newspapers

Through a broader collaborative partnership with the University of North Texas, I’ve been examining a large corpus of digitized historical newspapers from Texas. My project uses text processing to recreate and analyze the imaginative geography of various times and locales in Texas history. The results of my research were published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History, along with an accompanying online component at the Stanford Spatial History Project. The majority of the research took place through a research grant from the Stanford Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities, as part of the Tooling Up for Digital Histories project at the Bill Lane Center and the Spatial History Lab. (Blevins, 2014)

2014

1. Mining and Mapping the Production of Space: A View of the World from Houston

   Cameron Blevins

   2014
2. Space, nation, and the triumph of region: A view of the world from Houston

   Cameron Blevins

   The Journal of American History, 2014

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