Category Archives: Teaching

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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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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What Has Been Lost

Posted on December 9, 2011 by LaDale Winling

I read Jonathan Rees’ blog pretty regularly, as I think he is a fairly astute critic of the way that educational technology is often deployed and its labor implications in the academy. Here he really nails the issue of knowledge … Continue reading →

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