Published on The Gale Review, Gale International’s blog, “Collisions: Driving Through Digital Humanities in Search of Roadkill” by Gilberto Mazzoli (University of Konstanz) describes using digitized primary sources, keyword searching, GIS, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Google My Maps to investigate the environmental history of automobility in the United States. The post discusses the difficulty of tracing evidence for roadkill before the term itself was in common use, along with related challenges of changing historical vocabulary, incomplete route information, and uneven archival evidence. This post may be of interest to readers working on digital methods, environmental history, and mapping as a research method.
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