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The tag cloud allows you tonavigate the full set of Items - in other words, to navigate at "ground" level. Click on any one tag, or run aquery by checking the boxes next to two or more and then on the "Filter" button at the bottom of the display.…

One late-autumn morning in 1782 Empress Catherine II sat in her study in the Winter Palace drinking coffee and contemplating the fate of Crimea. In her hand was a carefully-crafted letter from Prince Grigory Potemkin, president of the War College,…

Spatial history - and spatial narratives - result from the movement of human beings, goods, animals, water, trees, germs, etc., through space and over time. Imagine the accrual of urban commute patterns or the passage of travelers through…