Mysteries in Time and Space: Historical Computing

This session highlights three of the most innovative projects in Canadian historical computing, all aimed at deploying the new technologies new pedagogical ideas to allow us to teach humanities and history in ways we have never been able to teach before. The session is organized by the Canadian Committee on History and Computing, a committee of the Canadian Historical Association and the leading body in historical computing in Canada.

The three papers in the session highlight different aspects of the history-technology interface: one involving 3-D reconstructions, the second the linking of historical maps and census information to contemporary GIS based maps, and the third the creation of virtual archives around historic crimes aimed at a new pedagogy of teaching history.