history

RJ Andrews, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center, curated a collection…

The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on…

Manuel Lima hosted a free online panel with Michale Friendly and Sandra Rendgen…

Stephen M. Stigler argues that data have a limited shelf life. The abstract:…

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…

Roger Peng provides a lesson on the roots of R and how it…

For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…

Sandra Rendgen describes the history of “data” the word and where it stands…

In 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through ten southern states in three…

David C. Brock writing for IEEE Spectrum delves into the origins of PowerPoint.…

I have an affinity for new things designed as old things, so this…

Clive Thompson for Smithsonian Magazine gives a quick history lesson on infographics.
[D]ata…

In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…

“I wish there was a timeline browser for all the historical events documented…

Ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of a famous writer or literary…

Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic department, they provide a…

In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…

In 1932, Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published Atlas of the…

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world:
This map…