S. Wright Kennedy

After 3 years, #MappingHistoricalNewYork launched today. The digital atlas allows you to explore the residential patterns of #NYC in 1850, 1880, & 1910 mappinghny.com #HNYC @c4sr_columbia @CUHistoryDept @laurakurgan @danmillr @lmeisterlin @Rebecca_Kobrin

The Richard Sutch Student Travel Award application has been extended for *students who have an accepted paper* for the 2022 SSHA annual conference. The extended deadline for applying is July 15, 2022. To apply, please complete the application form at: bit.ly/3OkWXiB

@williamrblack Not sure what happened to this book (I haven't been able to find a copy), but it's similar to your idea: 'The Other Side of the Story' by Kyle Ward abebooks.com/9781620970096/…

Thank you @NYPLMaps for making the Map Warper geotiffs available for download!

first glimpse of the 1850 census data up at mappinghny.com #mappinghistoricalnewyork

@karl_jacoby Is Charles Rosenberg on Twitter yet?

Some historian (not me!) needs to write a thought piece comparing the cholera epidemics of the 1800s with Covid-19. There are so many potent parallels: the fixation on "Asian" origins, the way death rates highlighted social inequality, etc. virtualny.ashp.cuny.edu/cholera/1832/c…

It's time to clear up the issues about testing. So I've put together a #COVID19 thread on spread. Addressing the Super-spreaders, Spreaders, and the essentiality of testing

Some interesting simulations here: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” - Washington Post washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

.@andrewcuomo @BilldeBlasio Learn from history: close @NYCSchools to limit #coronavirus #COVID19 spread. "School closure reduced and delayed the [flu] epidemic peak especially if implemented earlier." clinicalkey.com/#!/content/jou…… see also 1918 flu: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Follow @NOLAReady for updates on the storms in New Orleans @theAAG #AAG2018 #NOLA

Oh the pains of an ISP monopoly. @CoxComm now includes data caps at the same price as before and big outages as an added bonus.

Latest @RiceMagazine features great article on #spatialhistory #hgis projects @RiceUniversity magazine.rice.edu/2017/05/mappin… #twitterstorians #gis

Check out my talk #HGIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities, just posted on @SouthernSpaces southernspaces.org/2017/potential… #twitterstorians #GIS

Destroying data=modern book burning. #115congress actively working towards greater systemic racism #HR482 #datarescue #gis #twitterstorians

Just updated the New Orleans Mortality Project website. Follow our progress nola.spatialhistory.org/project-status/ #HGIS #DH #twitterstorians #histmed #GIS

If you like history, maps, weird old buildings, and killing time on the internet, you'll love this trib.al/PMfsddh

GIS Day Tribute to the Father of #GIS, the late Roger Tomlinson canadiangis.com/geo/father-gis #gisday @gisday #innovation #geographyweek

Experiment on mapping election issue search patterns @GoogleTrends electionlandtrends.appspot.com #maps #ElectionDay what's up in Sterlington, LA

When the Next Hurricane Hits Texas; looming eco disaster on gulf coast & energy disaster nationwide #envhist nyti.ms/2dKaEtF

@JessicaMDeWitt @imo_weg I'm a little late to the conversation, but you can also use the "Display data cumulatively" option