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Cameron Blevins
@historying
Digital History, 19th-cent. US, American West | Prof @CUDenver | he/him | Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West (@OUPHistory)
Mar 31, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
In advance of tomorrow's official release of my book Paper Trails, today I'm releasing US Post Offices - the underlying spatial-historical dataset that made the book possible. Here's a peek into the data: US Post Offices contains records for 166,140 post offices that operated in the US between 1639-2000. It is one of the most detailed and expansive datasets available for studying US historical geography on a year-by-year basis.
Apr 19, 2018 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
I've come down with the #unessay bug that's been going around. Symptoms include: renewed end-of-the-semester energy, warm fuzzy feelings of pride for one's students, and an acute desire to proselytize about the assignment.

Here's a thread of some reflections... Nuts and bolts:
1. The #unessay was part of History of the Western U.S. Students had to compose an analysis of some place in the West and explain its significance for the region's history in any form _other_ than a written essay. (cblevins.github.io/sp18-west/plac…).