Related projects

Partner Organizations, Collaborators and Contributors

• Inquirium, LLC, builders of the GIS for History application and web site
• The National Historical Geographic Information System Project, source for all historical county and state boundary files
• The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, source for historical census data
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) at the Minnesota Population Center, source for historical census data
• Northwestern University's GEODE Initiative, makers of MyWorld, a GIS application designed for the K-12 classroom
• Social Explorer: An excellent on-line GIS with current and historical census data mapped for the US.
• The Newberry Library, home of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project, and the Chicago Metro History Education Center
• Teaching & Learning with GIS: our research project studying how middle-grades and high school students learn while using GIS in science and social studies investigations

Historical Document On-line Archives

• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• History Matters from the American Social History Project, George Mason University
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• The US National Archives and Records Administration, including their Teaching with Documents lessons and materials
• EDSITEment: the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• The Smithsonian Institution

Historical Map Resources

• Historic Maps in K12 Classrooms: an excellent on-line resource from Chicago's Newberry Library for teachers interested in teaching with historic maps
• David Rumsey Map Collection: a top-quality, searchable collection of on-line digital maps
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) GIS Clearinghouse: search for mapped data by theme, place, and/or time, and download any available GIS files

More census data and materials on the census

• The main Census 2000 web site: A huge range of materials to explore
• Census in schools: Census-data lesson plans for grades K-12, resources for teachers
• American FactFinder: An easy-to-use resource to easily access census data from 1990 to the present, including query tools, maps, and census bureau reports
• The Electronic Map Library: a wonderful collection GIS map images (not interactive) created by Dr. William Bowen at UC Northridge, showing 1990 and 2000 census data for many US cities
• Statistical Abstract of the United States: A huge list of reports from census data, 1995-2000, organized by topic and year