Graphic scale from a 1595 map, from David Greenhood, Mapping (1951), p. 45.
Historical Geography Network Chairs:

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 Baltimore, Maryland, November 13-16.

The Historical Geography Network is a rapidly growing organizing group within the SSHA. Network members' interests include the relation of geography to historiographic issues, the role of maps, mapping and GIS in social science history, and social, economic, and cultural geography.

Among areas of growing interest are: 

• historical applications of GIS for visualization and spatial analysis;
• the cultural and social geography of national and ethnic identities;
• trade, travel, and transnational exchange;
• historical geography and cultural heritage preservation;
• urban and rural geographies;
• historical geographies of labor migration and industrial development
• methods for digital historical geography--gazetteers, metadata, etc.