Author Archives: LaDale Winling

At the Precipice

Posted on May 10, 2013 by LaDale Winling

After six weeks of grief, logistics planning, and dealing with bureaucracy, I may finally be ready to dust off my historian’s hat. Am I ready to take the leap? My hold on historical knowledge has never felt so slippery as … Continue reading →

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Settling Down

Posted on April 17, 2013 by LaDale Winling

In July of 2010 my wife, I, and our cat, along with our soon-to-be born baby boy, pulled our U-Haul truck out of the alley next to our apartment building in Evanston and onto Main Street. We headed to Philadelphia … Continue reading →

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Kate

Posted on April 2, 2013 by LaDale Winling

My wife took her last breath on Saturday night, March 23rd, and her remains were cremated after her funeral this past Friday night.  Her ashes (and mine, eventually) will be buried in her maternal grandmother's family plot in rural Ontario. … Continue reading →

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New Work with Census Data in GIS

Posted on December 12, 2012 by LaDale Winling

NHGIS, one of the digital efforts of the Minnesota Population Center, is totally wonderful. Since I learned about it as a graduate student, it has been an essential source when I need demographic data from the U.S. Census and to … Continue reading →

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FHA Underwriting Manual

Posted on November 29, 2012 by LaDale Winling

This summer I was reading Louis Hyman’s Debtor Nation when I came across a surprising reference to the FHA Underwriting Manual developed in the 1930s advising mortgage lenders that college campuses were an excellent buffer for good neighborhoods against infiltration … Continue reading →

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Lincoln

Posted on November 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

My wife and I went out on Thursday for just the third time since our son’s birth, this time to see Lincoln. Several historians chimed in with their opinions and evaluations at film’s release. Kate Masur, a historian of slavery … Continue reading →

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Virginia Senators

Posted on November 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

While Virginia had very Democratic Senators in the first part of the century, from the election of Harry Byrd, the state’s Senate Delegation became much more conservative, though for most of the 20th century the seats remained Democratic. Only recently, … Continue reading →

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Virginia 9th Congressional District

Posted on November 5, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Working with some DW-NOMINATE data, I plotted the ideological rank of the Congressional Representative for VA-9, where Blacksburg and Virginia Tech are. We can see that the current representative, Morgan Griffith, is the most conservative representative of the district since … Continue reading →

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New Resources

Posted on November 2, 2012 by LaDale Winling

I created a few ArcGIS tutorials for students in my digital history class: How to Join, Georeference, and Create a New Polygon Shapefile. On these pages I supply the files you’ll need and they are oriented towards historians, which is … Continue reading →

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Berkeley in the 60s

Posted on October 27, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal have a piece up at Dissent on the reuse of the Reagan playbook at the University of California, linking the 1960s to the 2000s. The last few years that point has been broadly made several … Continue reading →

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