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Old Weather

OldWeather.org

Why should we be interested in old ship’s logs?  Well this site reveals how the detailed Screenshot 2014-09-03 07.38.49records kept about weather in ships’ logs can help give us information about climate change.  Listen to this radio segment on the site, interviewing the transcribers of the logs.

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Mapping

Orbis

The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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About the Project
(excerpted from the project website)

The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity.

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Network Analysis

Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment (database available through Bertrand Library)Screenshot 2014-08-24 14.39.47

Electronic Enlightenment — letters & lives online

. . . reconnecting the first global social network!

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world’s great historical “conversations”.

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Mapping

Hypercities

Hypercities (best viewed in Chrome)

Screenshot 2014-08-27 13.41.17Collaborative research and teaching platform for developing “deep maps” of selected cities

 

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Lincoln at 200

A Collaborative Project of the Newberry Library, the Chicago Museum, and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

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Newberry Library Lincoln exhibit
Newberry Library Lincoln exhibit

About the Project

(excerpted from project website)

Lincoln at 200 is a collaborative project of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Chicago History Museum, and the Newberry Library. The Institute for Museum and Library Services has generously provided funding for this Web exhibition as part of a series of initiatives to commemorate the Lincoln bicentennial. All three institutions collaborated in planning public programs in Chicago for the bicentennial year. Eileen Mackevich, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, initiated the discussions that led to this collaboration. We are grateful to her and to Jennifer Rosenfeld, deputy executive director of the Bicentennial Commission, for their energetic and collegial participation in this initiative.