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A New Strategy for Linking U.S. Historical Censuses: A Case Study for the IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel

Historical Methods, 2021
This paper presents a probabilistic method of record linkage, developed using the U.S. full count censuses of 1900 and 1910 but applicable to many sources of digitized historical records.
Jonas Helgertz, Joseph Price, J. Wellington, K. J. Thompson, S. Ruggles, Catherine A. Fitch   +5 more
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Walking in their footsteps: Historical empathy and experiential learning on battlefield study tours

Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education
Reflecting on my experience leading battlefield study tours for secondary school students, this article explores the pedagogical benefits of experiential learning for fostering historical empathy.
Sara Karn
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A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America

Historical Biology
Supposed dinosaur remains were collected between 1859 and 1906 in the Lower Cretaceous Recôncavo Basin (Northeast Brazil). Since these materials remained undescribed, and most were considered lost.
Kamila L. N. Bandeira, B. Navarro, R. Pêgas, N. S. Brilhante, A. S. Brum, Lucy G. de Souza, R. C. da Silva, Valéria Gallo   +7 more
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Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Using both “off the shelf” remote sensing software, machine learning and computational algorithms, this article details a new methodology to extract building and urban footprints from historical maps.
A. Litvine, Arthur Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickael Coustaty, L. Shaw-Taylor, Véronique Églin   +6 more
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Rise and development of Slavic accentual paradigms

, 2010
It appears that the complexity of Slavic historical accentology is prohibitive for most non-specialists in the field. It may therefore be useful to approach the subject from a number of different angles in order to render it more accessible to a wider ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
This article presents the findings of an experiment in the use of Artificial Intelligence text generation processes to convert historical ‘big data’ into narrative text.
Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, Martin Gibbs   +2 more
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Issues in Balto-Slavic accentology

, 2010
After the very well-organized Leiden conference for which we must be grateful to Tijmen Pronk, it seems appropriate for me to review some of the papers, as I did after the previous conferences in Zagreb and Copenhagen. The aim of this review is merely to
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Investigating adolescents’ historical reasoning skills when analyzing and interpreting an image

Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education
This study investigated adolescents’ (secondary school students, N = 145, M age 13.9 years) historical reasoning skills when analyzing and interpreting an image.
Kevin van Loon, Dominic Studer, Monika Waldis   +2 more
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Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited

, 2010
There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world: Nature conservation and tourism in Swedish national parks

Journal of Historical Geography
Tourism and conservation policies in Sweden share a signi fi cant common history, involving constructions of the non-human world. In this paper, the development of this historical relationship is traced through national park policies and the Swedish ...
Emelie Fälton, Tom Mels
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