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Digital History: Using ArcGIS to Create Historic Walking Tours
This blog is by Sean Moseley, M.A. in History 2024. Imagine you’re visiting a small town in Virginia for the first time. As you walk down the street, you notice a few houses or buildings that appear to be historic. Perhaps you see gothic window arches with stained glass, leading you to assume that […]
Living History: The Ultimate Way to “Show, Not Tell”
This blog is by Richard Elliott Martin, M.A. in history May 2025. Is history a fact on a page, or is it a living, breathing thing? To me, the past is as real as the present is today, and the public historian’s role is to bring it to life. In the summer of 2021, I […]
