Geography in History Education: Effective Integration Strategies and Examples

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"As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without: a certaine habitation."

-Captain John Smith

INTRODUCTION

Noted historian Michael Kammen, writing in his well received summary of the state of historical investigation and the teaching of history, The Past Before Us (1980), recognized the importance of geography. He noted that the integration of geographical interpretations into historical studies is long overdue, and he maintained that even those historians with "training in geography" were now becoming more sensitive to the "role of the environment, material resources, and land use in human …