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This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Spatial History Project
The Spatial History Project at Stanford University, a part of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), is made possible by the generous funding of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE), DoResearch, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Wallenberg Foundation Media Places Initiative.
About Us:

The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations.

For more information about the basis for the project, consult Richard White's essay "What is Spatial History?" and Erik Steiner's "Spatial History Project" articles here.

This website has been preserved as a static archive of materials presented "as-is" in an effort to honor the efforts and committments of the dozens of authors, supporters, funders and others who contributed to the project. You can find the vast majority of the original digital materals on this site, some presented in an emulated Flash environment.

Selected Publications:
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Conservation Histories of California
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Mining and Mapping the Production of Space
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Conservation for the land or for the species?
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A Spatial History Annotated Bibliography
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The Spatial History Project
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Conflict on the Q!
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Follow the Money: A Spatial History of In-Lieu Programs for Western Federal Lands
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Richard Pryor's Peoria Website
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Mapping U.S. Post Offices in the Nineteenth-Century West
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Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present Day
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A History of Bay Area Open Space Conservation
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Salmon Flu Transmission in Salmon Aquaculture
Core Staff:
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Zephyr_Frank
Zephyr Frank
Director, Spatial History Project
Erik_Steiner
Erik Steiner
Co-Director, Spatial History Project