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The study aimed to building a proposed educational program based on applications of historical geographic information systems (HGIS) and measuring its effectiveness in developing research skills and historical geography imagine in the history course for female students of the humanities track at the secondary school in Saudi Arabia. The study followed the quasi-experimental method with one group design, according to the nature of the proposed educational program. A randomly available sample of (20) female students from the humanities track was chosen in one of the government girls' secondary schools in Riyadh. Two tools were used to collect data, namely: testing of situations for historical geographic research skills and observation card for historical geographic imagination skills after achieved the validity and debility. The results of the study showed that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.01) between the mean scores of the study group in the pre and post applications in the situations test, and the observation card in favor of the post application. The results also showed the high impact of the proposed educational program on the development of historical geographic research and imagination skills in the sample, where the influence coefficient on the two variables reached (0.88, 0. 98), respectively. The (Black) of the adjusted gain of the dependent variables reached (1.59%, 1.23%) respectively, which confirms the high effectiveness of the independent variable on developing dependent variables. The results revealed a strong positive and direct correlation relationship (0.882) between the dependent variables , and the results also revealed the existence of Linear predictive reliability correlation (α ≤ 0,01) at the significance level, respectively, between the two dependent variables for the Beta value (0.30, 0.39) at the significance level (α ≤ 0.01) each is up to the other level. The study concluded with some appropriate deductions, recommendations and suggestions. (Published abstract)