“List of books wanted by R H Bishop”, ca 1810, Transylvania University. Dr Bishop offered coursework in geography at TU before becoming the first president of Miami U of Ohio in 1824

Reading geography student final papers in the 1820s from Transylvania University.

Hooray? 🎉 🤪

Grateful to join the Familiar Landscapes workshop at @knowltonosu.bsky.social with a little invited essay that thinks with Pumpkin Center, Missouri (and shout-out to the new book by @psimpy.bsky.social)

When the research for an essay overlaps with organizing a storage area of my parents’ house #familiarlandscapes

Check this cuteness that arrived in the mail from the Sayre second graders I visited #geography

Always fun to host the GEO702 seminar students for brunch! Hard to believe another Fall semester is nearly over. Best wishes to all finishing the term!

While doing course planning, typed “Internment in Geography” instead of “Internship”. 🪦

Well done, chair brain.

A newspaper clipping from 1967 inside some files related to the Harvard LCGSA #digitaltwins

Thinking with my Grandpa Dean’s high school geography textbook (by RH Whitbeck, U of Wisc), which included annotation perhaps by him in the early 1940s: “Danger proceed at own risk.”

From 2019 to 2024, the % of students coming to the U of Kentucky with #APHG credit and taking another GEO course has increased (11.28 to 17.35%). The % of students coming to UK *without* APHG credit and taking #GEO courses has largely held steady (24.6 to 25.64%).

Working on a chapter on memorization, thinking with this sketch by Edward Ullman in 1934 of Chicago (in his early 20s), while he was a geography student at the University of Chicago. (And thanks to @jswab.bsky.social for finding Ullman’s sketchbook!)

Doing some reading this morning on efforts to move elementary geography education away from fact memorization in the interwar period. Excerpt from Marguerite Uttley in The Journal of Geography in 1940, chair of the Testing Committee, National Council of Geography Teachers.

38th first day of school! So grateful for these colleagues at Kentucky Geography (and many others not in the photo!) #firstday #backtoschool #geography