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Strikethrough word of the day: Settler

Notes for future historians - June 19, 2017
Ma and Pa and Palestine.
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What we play to computers

Notes for future historians - March 20, 2016
Alexa's Mondegreens.
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Movies for the busy TA

Notes for future historians - January 6, 2016
Films to use in history classes.
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Parents and patriots worry

Notes for future historians - October 23, 2015
and sometimes I do for America.
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Two©twenty©two©eighty©nine

Notes for future historians - May 24, 2015
She was unimpressed.
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Je suis la Cisjordanie

Notes for future historians - March 12, 2015
In both cartographic and political identity.
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Multi-page images: Lookout Mountain

Mass rephotography - November 23, 2014
Pretty pictures, but they need some backsides.
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Parents and patriots worry

Notes for future historians - September 28, 2014
and sometimes I do for America.
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Rephotography: plumbed and protracted

Mass rephotography - August 7, 2014
Aim and right your tripod with ease. You have nothing to lose but your leveling heads.
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Google Earth gets weird

Notes for future historians - June 3, 2014
It's occasionaly otherworldly.
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Pete Townshend is John Donne

Notes for future historians - September 8, 2013
O'er[throw] me.
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An open letter to the New York Times Graphics Desk

Notes for future historians - July 4, 2013
That’s right, some punkass little equal-area cartogram.
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Landsat 8 and the H

Mass rephotography - June 19, 2013
A few days ago Landsat 8 flew overhead for the first time. So we went up on Lookout Mountain to meet it halfway.
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My 97% pano head

Mass rephotography - June 15, 2013
It was fun doing it for a few dollars, but more than that I’m interested in how rephotography can be scaled up.
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Where in the heck is WhereintheHills?

Mass rephotography - May 28, 2013
WhereintheHills taught me that microarchives like WhereintheHills are part of the problem.
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Near-ground imagery: two talks

Mass rephotography - April 14, 2013
Why and how to build a national, online database for ground photos.
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The hair strike hymnal

Notes for future historians - April 10, 2013
It tells its own story, the student strike at Shattuck School in 1970.
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  • Robert Wellman Campbell

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