SocNet places history and the historical social sciences in a multidisciplinary computational environment to examine historical events across virtual geographic spaces and complex social networks. SOCNET enables historians and historical social scientists to form, manage, visualize and analyze geographically-integrated narratives about social networks. It studies social networks in the first global age (1400- 1800 CE) to build a foundation for further studies of space and social networks, and to encourage development of skills needed to encourage spatial analysis in the social sciences.