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    December 22, 2013

    We’ve released our latest project! Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas’s nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century.

    December 16, 2013

    Rob Nelson discusses the History Engine as a model for online pedagogy in Inside Higher Education.  Where MOOCs dilute interactions between students and faculty, the History Engine enhances these interactions and harnesses their outcomes for the public good.

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