Spatial History Project

A Data Model for Spatial History: Shaping the West

Botanizing California

The Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro circa 1869

The Struggle for Ownership of the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1972

Backend Visualizations

Tooling Up for Digital Histories

Holocaust Geographies

Project Steel Beta

Shaping the West

Railroad Repeats: The Alfred A. Hart Photo Project

Terrain of History

Rio de Janeiro Historical Address Locator

Critical Habitat

Botanizing California, 1840-2008

Between the Tides

Morgan Oyster Holdings, 1909: Height of Bay Oyster Industry

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

02 November 2009

Nov.1: New Shaping the West Visualization:
The Alfred A. Hart Photo Project

Between 1865 and 1869, as the railroad was being constructed, Alfred A. Hart took 364 photos along the historic route of the Central Pacific. Jesse White is repeating his journey, taking repeat photographs at each of Hart's original sites. You can explore the photos and delve into the history behind them HERE.

San Jose Mercury News: Big plans for a little butterfly

"'How can we learn to be better managers of a world that is increasingly shaped by us?' asked history graduate student Jon Christensen, who is part of the team recommending the reintroduction. 'Only a carefully designed scientific experiment can tell us.'" Read more.

New Shaping the West Visualization

Culling railroad station construction dates from various Railroad Commissioner's Reports from the late-19th century, we've constructed a rough visualization of the expansion of the railroads across California. You can see it HERE.