Welcome to Laura Newman Eckstein’s Project Portfolio.

Below, you will find links to different projects I am particularly proud of, and I feel represent my best work. You can find my bio here.

Projects

• Religious Life in America
  • Senior Thesis,“On the River on the Road: Lower Mississippi Peddlers and their Judaism, 1820-1865”
  • Jewish Holiday Notices in Newspapers
    • Analysis I
    • Analysis II and Map
  • Mapping the 1906 United States Census of Religion
• 19th Century United States Post Road Shapefiles/Geojson Files
  • 1804 Post Road Shapefile
  • 1809 Post Road Shapefile
  • 1825 Post Road Shapefile
  • 1839 Post Road Analysis and Mapindividual
  • 1839 Post Road Shapefile
  • 1850 Post Road Shapefile
  • 1850/1 Post Road Analysis and Map
  • Combined Post Road and Stage Road File (In individual files, but can download all years as a zip)
• Other
  • Choropleth Map of Rosenwald Schools in the Southern United States
  • A Response to the Charleston Massacre: The Confederate Streets of South Carolina
  • Got Pesticides?

Contact

You are welcome to contact me at anytime. Email me at lauraeck@upenn.edu.