Created by students in “HIST215 – Mapping History,” taught by Prof. Claire Campbell with support from Janine Glathar & Wes Bernstein
In Fall 2019, Bucknell alumnus Steven Horowitz ’62 donated a collection of rare, historic maps to the university for use in history and geography classes. Over the next few years, Prof. Claire Campbell worked on cataloging the collection (with help from student researcher Ryan Bremer ’22, a History/Film & Media Studies major) and on building a History Lab to provide storage for primary materials (such as the Horowitz map collection) and a space for students to research and interact with those primary materials.
Over spring & summer 2022, Claire Campbell & Janine Glathar discussed ideas for an assignment for Prof. Campbell’s ‘Mapping History’ course – which considers maps as artifacts of environmental history and environmental change – that would have students produce a public-facing digital gallery to showcase research on maps from the Horowitz Map Collection. Before the assignment could be handed off to students, the maps had to be digitized so that the students’ map profiles could include snapshots of specific, detailed features in each map. Wes Bernstein spent an afternoon staging and photographing the maps to provide the high resolution images needed for this project.
Janine Glathar worked with Prof. Campbell to create a Research Notes Template for students to use during their research process over the course of the semester and a Map Profile Template for the students to add their finalized analysis & research materials to. Behind the scenes, Janine used ESRI Storymaps to create the public-facing Horowitz Map Collection Digital Gallery and the Map Profile Template pages that students built out for each map and which are embedded in the gallery.
To see more of the process of creating the digital gallery, watch this short video (no audio) created by Wes Bernstein:
Course: HIST215 – Mapping History
Faculty: Claire Campbell, Professor of History
DP&S Liaison: Janine Glathar & Wes Bernstein
Date: Summer and Fall 2022