2001 Annual Meeting, November 15-18, Chicago, Illinois
Historical Geography Network

Graphic scale from a 1595 map, from David Greenhood, Mapping (1951), p. 45.
Historical Geography Network Chair
Ian Gregory at Ian.Gregory@port.ac.uk

This is the home page for the historical geography network of the Social Science History Association. The main purpose of the site is to provide information about the network and the sessions it is offering at this  year's conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2001. 

Provisional timetable and arrangements for the 2001 conference in Chicago are now available.
Practical details necessary for attending the conference are available from the main site.

Although it is early, I would be grateful for ideas and proposals for the 2002 conference to be held in St. Louis, October 24-27. The 2001 conference has a strong GIS theme, I would like this to continue but would also like suggestions for sessions that do not involve GIS or where GIS has only a marginal role. If you have any suggestions please either contact me by email or come along to the network meeting at the conference.

The Historical Geography Network is one of the smaller but most rapidly growing of the SSHA's networks. Network members' interests include the relation of geography to historiographic issues, the role of maps and mapping in social science history, and World Systems theory. The 1998 meeting saw a new surge of interest in three areas of historical geography:

    Historical applications of GIS and the methodological issues related to constructing, maintaining, and disseminating data from historical GIS projects; Growing interest across many disciplines in what might be called spatial history; Historians of cartography's increasingly sophisticated, culturally nuanced analysis of the making, use, and meaning of maps. 
For any information about the forthcoming conference or the historical geography network more generally please contact Ian.Gregory@port.ac.uk.