In “Scaling the Dust Bowl” we really get to see what digital history is exactly. Through the use of GIS the author is able to illustrate his argument in a much more effective away. According to gparker77<\/a>\u00a0digital history gives historians new ways to interpret and explore historical happenings through the data analysis. I assume that the author was able to access all the data of dust storms, crop land, and drought prone areas but he was able to use GIS, which is a new technology used by geographers, to add a new dimension and reinforce his argument. Now the article basic argument is that the dust bowl was not this unique event that has been immortalized in history and what we thought we knew about it has been dramatized. Through the maps the author provides us we are able to see that plowing for crops and the strength of dust storms\u00a0didn’t actually have as much of a correlation as expected. The author does still however use more traditional methods with the use of primary and secondary sources to reinforce is his argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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