Placing history : how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship / edited by Anne Kelly Knowles ; digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier.

Papers presented at a conference held at the Newberry Library in Chicago in March 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.

GIS and history / Anne Kelly Knowles -- Creating a GIS for this history of China / Peter K. Bol -- Teaching with GIS / Robert Churchill and Amy Hillier -- Scaling the dust bowl / Geoff Cunfer -- "A map is just a bad graph" : why spatial statistics are important in historical GIS / Ian N. Gregory -- Mapping husbandry in Concord: GIS as a tool for environmental history / Brian Donahue -- Combining space and time: new potential for temporal GIS / Michael F. Goodchild -- New windows on the Peutinger map of the Roman World / Richard J. A. Talbert and Tom Elliott -- History and GIS: implications for the discipline / David J. Bodenhamer -- What could Lee see at Gettysburg? / Anne Kelly Knowles. with Will Roush, Caitrin Abshere, Lucas Farrell, Andrew Feinberg, Thom Humber, Garriott Kuzzy, and Charlie Wirene -- Conclusion: an agenda for historical GIS / Anne Kelly Knowles, Amy Hillier, and Roberta Balstad.

CD-ROM in pocket on inside back cover.