Summer Institute for Global Educators 2021: What's In a Name

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Higher Education
K-12
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World

In this presentation at the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Educators, Dr. Ruth Mostern, Associate Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses and explains how to use the World Historical Gazetteer website (https://whgazetteer.org/). This website provides "a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales."