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KY Geography Alliance blog

In Spotlight on November 17, 2013 by Randolph Hollingsworth Tagged: , , , ,

Scott Dobler (l) and Amy Murrell Taylor (r) disussing the use of GIS in Kentuky history research

KATH 2013: “Using Geographic Information Systems to Analyze Kentucky Battlefields” with Scott Dobler (left), KY Geography Alliance, WKU

This just in from WKU geography professor, Scott Dobler of the Kentucky Geography Alliance (presenter at the 2013 KATH conference):

The Kentucky Geographic Alliance and National Geographic Education is partnering with H-Kentucky on H-Net <https://networks.h-net.org/h-kentucky> to celebrate Geography Awareness Week.

A series of Kentucky-based maps will be presented to the Kentucky P12 community. Education and content experts will be answering questions from you and your class about the maps and other questions engaged in the series of blogs. Please stop in for some interesting conversations.

The conversation will begin on Monday, and you can access it through the Kentucky Geographic Alliance Blog via the H-Kentucky network. In order to join the conversation on the content presented, first log in at H-Kentucky (create an account <https://networks.h-net.org/user/register>) and then post your comments.

We will also be promoting Geography Awareness Week information via our Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/kygeoalliance> and
Twitter <https://twitter.com/KYGeogAlliance> pages, so be sure to interact with us there as well.

Scott Dobler
Kentucky Geographic Alliance

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Nancy Baird on importance of history

In Spotlight on November 12, 2013 by Randolph Hollingsworth Tagged: , , ,

Nancy Baird

Nancy Baird

Our KATH Spotlight turns to Nancy Disher Baird, retired librarian at the Kentucky Library (now Special Collections Library) at Western Kentucky University.  Ms. Baird joined the faculty of the Department of Library Special Collections in 1975 and is a professor and specialist in Kentucky history.

Josie Underwood's Civil War DiaryHer most recent work is to edit a Bowling Green woman’s Civil War diary – a wonderful publication that helps us see the Civil War from a Kentuckian sympathetic to the Union:  Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary.

Ms. Baird, Professor Emerita at WKU, has been interviewed several times – see the full array at the KHS “Pass the Word” database. Click here to listen to Lisa Karen Miller’s interview with Nancy D. Baird, June 17, 2013where she talks about the history of the WKU campus, key WKU historians such as Lowell Harrison, and her 35 year career in the WKU library system.

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