In today’s increasingly electronic age, digital mapping has become an important tool of historical scholarship, allowing historians to not only share information but to present it in different ways that facilitate new interpretations and conclusions. Conveying historical information through interactive, electronic maps adds a spatial component to the information, allowing readers to locate it within geographically defined context and thus examine how geography influences trends in this data. Mapping the information creates an explicit link between the geographical and historical context of the data, and encourages a holistic approach in which the historian can compare the data to other data based on the relevance of its proximity. Continue reading →