This page lists, links to, and briefly describes files developed for the purposes of teaching social studies using geospatial tools (primarily Google Earth and My World GIS). Most, but not all, of these files have been developed at Lehigh University by students in the Teaching and Learning with Geospatial Tools (TLT 368) course taught by Dr. Hammond.
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Description: Provides a path from the expedition's starting point to its terminus on the Pacific Coast. Includes images from places and encounters along the way, and makes use of the Rumsey historical map collection to include the engraved map produced from the expedition's sketches.
1804 - 2005: The Louisiana Purchase & Native American Displacement
Extensive Google Earth file – incorporating GIS data and historical map overlays – developed by the Teaching American History project at Portland State, 2008: LA_Purchase_Native_GoogleEarth.kmz
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Description: Tracks county-level population of slaves and slave-owners in Texas during the republican period (between the revolution from Mexico and annexation by the United States. Provides both a geospatial coverage and an interactive graph (on the second tab). Note the rapid increases in both populations, with the majority of the slave-owners being "small" (owning 1-4 slaves).
1933: Child Laws in the United States
MyWorld GIS file created by Tom Hammond, Jan 2014: Child labor laws ver02.m3vz
Description: Compiles data from a 1993 report by the US Dept of Labor regarding various state-level regulations on child labor. For a description of the dataset and teaching suggestions, see the documentation within the file. To work with the raw data, start with this spreadsheet.
1933 - 1945: The Holocaust
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