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of my favorite documents is the shrub map
that shows all of the plantings (and they’re
very precisely placed to give the impres-
sion of bucolic nature) because Davidson
is meant to be this space that nurtures
learning, and I think that it absolutely is,
but the landscape is structured to reinforce
that idea.”
Shrout stipulates that properly employ-
ing archival research in a classroom setting
can better inform students about the sig-
the natural world around them.
Furthermore, Shrout acknowledges
that using an archival approach is famil-
iar for most students, as it allows them to
draw the same conclusions that they might
also reach when studying detailed, writ-
ten accounts of the environment. Shrout
comments, “One of the things that envi-
ronmental history does is
it says that we can read
landscapes in the same
way that we can read
texts.”
Shrout also contends
that Davidson students
are uniquely equipped to
take advantage of such
learning processes, as Da-
vidson maintains the best
collection of Southeastern
maps in the country.
Shrout
ex-
plains:
“The Davidson South-
eastern early maps collec-
tion is the best collection of Southeastern
maps in the country…It is the best collec-
tion of colonial to early Republican maps
of the Southeast. That makes teaching en-
vironmental history here a lot of fun, be-
cause one of the sources, that is sort of a
natural source, is maps.”
Professor Shrout, a Visiting Professor
in the History Department, is taking an ar-
chival approach to environmental history.
In doing so, Dr. Shrout meticulously stud-
ies maps for application in the classroom,
thereby allowing students to act as histo-
rians – extrapolating from given informa-
tion, critiquing and arguing their theories,
and forming material conclusions.
Dr. Shrout, a New Jersey native and
graduate of New York University and The
University of Chicago, has always em-
ployed maps in her research as a historian
outside of Davidson; however, Shrout –
through the Davidson College Map Collec-
tion and the William Patterson Cumming
Map Collection – hopes to better apply
such resources in a classroom setting.
As most historians would contend, maps
are often the lenses through which we ex-
plore our own
pasts. Maps can
not only illustrate
shifting
land-
scapes and ever-
changing archi-
tecture, but also
can inform us of
how individuals
once envisioned
their
surround-
ings.
Shrout up-
holds such a po-
sition, saying, “I
think there is also
something inter-
esting about the assumptions that people
make about nature and how that tells us
things about society.”
In supporting such a statement, Shrout
argues that we need only look at David-
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vidson, when we went to the archives, one
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“I think there is also
something interesting
about the assumptions
that people make about
nature and how that
tells us things about
society.”
- Anelise Shrout
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