(I am actively looking for employment opportunities. If you know of one that might be a good fit, please let me know.) Introduction: Map of Jewish Holiday Notices in Newspapers In my last post, I summarized why Jewish holidays would ever be announced in a newspaper in the United States, pre-1865, in a place like Wheeling, West Virginia or Olympia, […]
Jewish Holiday Notices in Newspapers – Part II
Jewish Holiday Notices in Newspapers – Part I
Why Jewish Holiday Announcements in the American Press (pre-1865)? (I am actively looking for employment opportunities. If you know of one that might be a good fit, please let me know.) Newspapers are somewhat of a fascination for me. Two summers ago, I worked on Ryan Cordell’s Viral Text project. I learned about and visualized how articles from newspapers […]
Senior Thesis
Yesterday I handed in my senior thesis, a project I have been working on for over a year. Suffice it so say, turning it in feels like one of the biggest accomplishments of my life thus far. I would like to once again thank my thesis advisor, Dr. Molly B. Farneth for all her help and support during this process. […]
The Confederate Streets of South Carolina
After watching Jon Stewart’s on-point and poignant words regarding the tragic shooting at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (watch it here before you continue reading!) I was curious about his statement that “the roads [in South Carolina] are named for Confederate generals.” I wanted to see the prevalence of Confederate Generals’ names as opposed to African American leaders’ […]
New Plans
I am pleased to announce that this summer I am a John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center Summer Research Fellow. A little bit more about the fellowship in general: “These competitive grants are designed to support thesis-related or otherwise substantive research projects, enabling students to spend the summer visiting archives, learning a language necessary to scholarship, or dedicating their time […]
Post Roads 1839
Before I begin: PLEASE NOTE: I am also looking for paid summer internships that have a map making component. I can send my resume and anything else if you are interested. Tweet, email, you know the drill… Hi Everyone, It has been a while. Not only did I complete my first semester of junior year, but I have been mastering the art […]
Updated Casino Map
Almost every Friday since September, Laurie Allen, a Digital Librarian at Haverford College has worked with me to improve my interactive mapping skills. I have been inspired to learn JavaScript, leaflet, some html, some css, some mapbox, some cartodb, and am now working on perfecting my d3 skills. For my first project, we took my casino map and after much […]
Got Pesticides?
This is a project that I completed for my final in my first GIS course. I talked to Dr. Steve Brown at the University of Georgia extension service and found that it may have been better to use data on cropland rather than total agricultural land. (Agricultural land in the USDA census can be divided into cropland and pastureland). However, […]
Casino Map
This is a map I created of Alaskan Native and American Indian Casinos in the United States. I retrieved the data from the National Indian Gaming Commission. Here’s the list. Click here for the full map Casino Map by Laura Newman Eckstein is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Based on a work at www.lauraneckstein.com.Permissions beyond the scope […]
Post Road Data
The Post Road data was created during my time as a Tri-college digital humanities intern with the Viral Texts Project at Northeastern University. I used two maps from the Library of Congress, both created by the official topographer to the Post Office Department, Henry A. Burr. Burr was the first topographer for the Post Office Department. Before, the government would […]