Northeastern University’s World History PhD program was founded in 1994. World History, in general, is a growing field, with only a few doctoral programs around […]
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“Climate Change/Crisis/Creativity” Conference
NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks 2019 conference
Can France Accept Islam?
France has the largest population of Muslims in the Western World, making up an estimated 7.5% of the population. The Muslim population has been steadily […]
Text Mining Northeastern University’s World History Dissertations
As I was exposed to more world history in class this semester, I continued to return to the same question: what separates empire history from […]
Visualizing Data
According to Theibault’s piece “Visualizations and Historical Arguments,” Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information is an influential work in regards to data visualization, exploring how best to […]
Digital Maps
Richard White’s piece “What is Spatial History,” provided a comprehensive overview of the field of spatial history, and the different variations of the practice. I […]
Google Books and Transnational History
The Google books project was an ambitious idea, which began in 2002, with the original goal of creating an online card catalog of books. The […]