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.

American Historical Association: What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects, May 2009
"What happens when a senior scholar takes up digital tools to advance a new interpretation and help him or her understand the complex patterns they are seeing in their sources?" → Read more.

The Stanford Daily: Researchers Visualize Complex Data, May 21, 2009
"...Working in conjunction with the Spatial History Lab, the trio had set out to map correspondence during the Enlightenment between geographical locations, providing static, pie-chart and animated views that offered varying strengths for seeing connections and relationships across time and space." → Read more.

Worldchanging: Spatial History and the Mannahatta Project, August 2008
"...As we've discussed before, dealing with floods of data is not a situation unique to history, and historians are finding their way towards the same set of solutions that designers and scientists are moving towards: information visualization.
The field has come to be known as spatial history, and there's an explosion of projects and tools in that field right now, lead by Stanford's Spatial History Project." → Read more.

Stanford Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007
"Historian Richard White always cringed at the standard geographer’s lament that he and his colleagues approach history as if it occurred on the head of a pin. Now he's trying to do something about it." → Read more.

Stanford Humanities Center Digital Initiatives: Spatial History
"The overarching goal of the Spatial History Project is to create dynamic, interactive tools that can be used across the spectrum represented by these research projects—from economic and technological changes, to social and political changes, and changes in science and the environment—and bring them all together to enable the creation of new knowledge and understanding of historical change in space and time and the possibilities for our present and future that may be found in the past." → Read more.