spatialhistory.stanford.edu

The Spatial History Project at Stanford University, a part of the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, is made possible by the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information, see: About the Spatial History Project

Spatial History Lab Staff:
Erik Steiner
Mithu Datta
Jeremy Zallen

Principal Investigators:
Richard White
Zephyr Frank
Jon Christensen
Matthew Booker

Our Projects:
How the West Was Shaped
Terrain of History
Critical Habitat

Visualizations:
Botanizing California, 1840-2008
Cattle Production in the American West, 1867-1935
Deaths from Yellow Fever in Rio de Janeiro, 1850
Tenement Housing in Rio De Janeiro, 1870s-1880s
Extinctions of Bay Checkerspot Butterfly Populations, 1960-2008
Jasper Ridge Bay Checkerspot Butterfly Populations, 1960-1998

Inspirations:
Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns
Atlas of Oregon
David Rumsey Map Collection
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
Virtual Shanghai
Worldmapper

Data, Resources, and Tools:
Visit our links. We will be adding data, resources and tools for spatial history to this web site. Please contact us if you know of anything we should include here.

Photo by Deon Reynolds.