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This workshop session will share the World Historical Gazetteer website, its interactive features, and resources to show how to incorporate the study of place names into course curriculum. The World Historical Gazetteer is a digital project that shows how ideas about places are embedded in their names. Ideas and actions change names and meanings associated with them. This workshop will illustrate this concept by introducing new classroom technology. Workshop participants will learn about the inception of and rationale for the creation of the World Historical Gazetteer and its teaching page focused on topics related to Asian Studies. They will then be walked through the features of the website including the search function for historical place names and collections of place name data. Participants will be asked to engage with a new pilot feature, the self-authored collections, which will allow them to create their own custom map of places that are important to them. Participants will be invited to offer suggestions for place name searches and will also be invited to explore individual lesson plans and supporting materials on the website.