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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Google Earth file developed by Yuanyuan Zhang, 2010; revised by Tom Hammond, 2012: Great Wall(s) of China ver04.kmz.
Description: Depicts the multiple time periods and places of the development of the wall; it is not a single, monolithic concept but took different forms in different time periods. Perspective applied to selected points along the wall to illustrate topography; includes Badaling tourist stop.
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1585-1620: Early British settlements in North America
Google Earth Jamestown: ArcGIS Online map created by Tom Hammond , 2012: British_colonies_in_North_America_ver02.kmz. Note that this overlay links to a file created by the Virginia Center for Digital History, in 2023, drawing upon materials from the Virtual Jamestown Project: indian_groups.kmz, along with various sources for overlays of historical maps.
SmartNotebook file to accompany Google Earth overlay (contains static More comprehensive view: Google Earth created by Tom Hammond, 2012: British_colonies_in_North_America_ver02.kmz.
SmartNotebook file to accompany Google Earth overlay (contains static versions of historical maps, plus other information): early_colonies_notebook_ver01.notebook.
Description:
- Expands upon VCDH's concept of Jamestown viewed from "inside the longhouse" -- rather than view the English settlement in a vacuum, this overlay shows the inverse: the Native American settlements in the region. For the English, it was a New World; for the Chesapeake-area residents, it was a familiar territory. For more information about the file, see www.virtualjamestown.org/ge_indian_groups.html
- Accompanying documents and data, including the 1595 map by John White, 1608 map by John Smith, and locations for the archaeological Jamestown and a reconstructed Fort Raleigh at Roanoke, plus several New England colonies (Plymouth, but also predecessors at Cuttyhunk and Popham).
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1791 - 1794: Whiskey Rebellion
ArcGIS.com map created by Tom Hammond, 2018. Note that this is a replica of a project by Jeff Snyder (2010), created as a My World GIS file: Whiskey_Rebellion_ver01.m3vz
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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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1933: Child Laws in the United States
MyWorld GIS file created ArcGIS Online map created in 2023 by Tom Hammond, Jan 2014: Child labor laws ver02.m3vz
Description: Compiles data from a 1993 1933 report by the US Dept of Labor's Children's Bureau 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, To work with the raw data, start with this spreadsheet.
1933 - 1945: The Holocaust
Google Earth timeline of Nazi camps, 1933-1945, from the US Holocaust Memorial & Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/maps/camps.kml
Description: Timeline of placemarks, starting with Dachau. For the selected camps, provides dates of opening / closing, types of prisoners held there, estimates of population and number killed, companies that used labor from the camp, etc.
My World GIS file created by Tom Hammond, 2011: Jewish populations circa Holocaust ver01a.m3vz
ArcGIS.com map created by Tom Hammond, 2016; additional border layers from Julie Oltman
Description: Uses data from Yad Vashem to show pre-war Jewish populations and number of victims of the Holocaust for selected countries. Allows students to grasp the full extent of the Holocaust (e.g., it includes countries such as Tunisia and Libya, which were then under Italian control), and to note discrepancies in patterns (e.g., percentage of Jews killed in Germany vs. Poland; the strong contrasts within the southeastern Europe such as between Bulgaria and Greece). Note: The map uses contemporary borders. Borders for 1938 and 1945 are included as a reference; users should keep in mind that the borders were in flux at this time.
Sources consulted:
...http://www1.yadvashem.org/IMAGE_TYPE/8381.jpg & ...8380.jpgStill in development: Adapting the map files to the historical reality--for example, the former Yugoslav and former Soviet states need to be re-configured to square up with the politics of 1933 and 1945.
1939-1945: World War Two
Google Earth file developed by Tom Hammond, spring 2012: World_War_2_ver04.kml
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