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Course Highlight: HIST 5316 Maps, Mapping and Historiographical Praxis

In the Fall 2024, students in HIST 5316: Maps, Mapping, and Historiographical Praxis conducted research into the history of cartography in Canada and cartographic historical storytelling for their capstone course projects. Besides those two subjects, the course’s primary learning objective was that students would think reflexively about their own praxis as historians, how they approach knowledge-making, for whom this knowledge is intended, and why such knowledge-making matters to them and their place in the world.

For one group of students in that class, the subject matter and learning objective led them to choose to share their research in what was, for each of them, a brand new way:  through the design and construction of a StoryMap).  All three examples featured below are unique from one another,  but each demonstrates the potential for historians to experiment with their storytelling, to create new kinds of mediated encounters between past and present, and to experience the making of historical knowledge as a mode of cultural production.

Check out the following StoryMap projects:

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