History Lab: Making Maps of Mexico

Final projects from Johns Hopkins University undergraduates in Spring 2021, Fall 2022, and Spring 2024

Students in this course worked with Prof. Lurtz to clean and map data from a 1900 Mexican agricultural statistics and the Mexican censuses from 1895 and 1900. The Omeka website and StoryMaps below include an overview of the coursework as well as students’ final research projects. Right click on the StoryMap and open in a new tab to view in more detail. You can find more about the GIS shapefiles of Mexico in 1900 at Mapping Mexico in 1900.

Spring 2024

Students created an Omeka website to explain the project and showcase the GIS projects they completed using 19th century data and shapefiles of Mexico’s political geography in 1900.