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Today we launch the #BlackSea Frames project! Each week we will post a photograph of the region taken by a member of the Davis Center community. This storytelling journey starts on a beach near Constanța, Romania, with a snapshot by Isabelle DeSisto 🇺🇦. daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/black-sea-fram…

3/29-30: the CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present a conference "Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity" cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/disaster… #DisasterStudies #earthquakes #flooding

This week our #BlackSea Frames selection, courtesy of historian Taylor Zajicek, brings us to the port city of Novorossiisk. To a stairway to nowhere. #Soviet #ruin #portcities daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/black-sea-fram…

Delicious history, at your fingertips. Check out our new maps! (Unless you aren't interested in sweets. Or factories. Or the 19th century. In that case, ignore our maps.) #chocolate #gingerbread #foodhistory #historicalGIS #maps imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/sweet…

Who owned confection factories? Turns out men, women, peasants, merchants, Italians, Ottomans and plenty of others were in the business of producing gingerbread and candy. Learn more about economic life in the late imperial period by checking out our maps! imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/sweet…

Odesa was a hub of confection production in the late imperial period. For comparison's sake, here are the location maps for Odesa and Saint Petersburg. Check out our other maps to see just what they were busy making on the Black Sea coast. imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/where…

Important event tonight!

There are so many maps waiting in the wings to play a role in Yevhenii Monastyrskyi's Donbas history thread. Here's a detail of a coal mine map published in Kharkiv in 1890 that speaks to the story.

Historical data (i.e., notoriously incomplete data) is full of tantalizing untold stories. Who were you, Nikolai Ivanovich Sukhov? How did you come to own a factory in Kharkiv that produced 7,000 rubles worth of delicious confections in 1884? imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/who-o…

This is going to be fun!

Come check out our "Elevation and Depth" event on April 7! #historicalmaps #maps #Caucasus #travel

This week's #BlackSea Frames selection takes us to the coast of #Bulgaria. Stretches of the Veleka River - its canyons & the oak-beech forests along it - are protected. The delta is a habitat for the water-lily and sea carrot and pygmy cormorant. daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/black-sea-fram…

In 1900, an American ethnographer wrote “The ability to read a map – that is, to obtain from a study of it an adequate mental conception of the country depicted – is much more rare than is commonly supposed.” Maybe, 125 years later, it's time to change that. #maps #geography #GIS

Mapping 19th factories might not sound like fun. But what if the factories were #chocolate factories? storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/01488c…

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

This week's #BlackSea Frames selection takes us back in time to #Odesa in 2013, to a view that no longer exists. The Hotel Odesa was badly damaged in a deadly Russian airstrike in 2023. #ukrainewar daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/black-sea-fram…

We received notice last week that all NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants have been cancelled. We had designed an amazing program around #Ukraine #GIS #history #topomaps & we intend to make it happen. This isn't defeat. It's a challenge. Let's go.

Our data catalog just got bigger! The data behind the Sweet Things project is now freely available via Dataverse. Read about it, download it, and build beautiful things with it! #history #data #russianempire #chocolate #historicalGIS doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0C…