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Great Migration and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Industrial North

Additional Resources

Web Resources

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html

The Learning Page at the Library of Congress: Collection Connections
Collection Connections provide activity ideas for using the American Memory collections to develop critical thinking skills. Of special interest: Map Collections: 1500-2004, Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 and Panoramic Maps.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/index.html

Library of Congress American Memory - George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker
Most Americans are familiar with George Washington's role as the leader of the Continental army against the British forces in the American Revolution or as the first president of the United States, but many may be unaware of Washington's lifelong association with geography and cartography. Beginning with his early career as a surveyor and throughout his life as a soldier, planter, businessman, land speculator, farmer, military officer, and president, Washington relied on and benefited from his knowledge of maps.
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gwmaps.html

Library of Congress: Zoom into Maps
Maps help us make sense of our world. This Library of Congress site explores maps and how they are used, with sections for local geography, exploration and discovery, migration and settlement, environmental history, travel and transportation, military, pictorial, and unusual maps.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/

National Geographic: Tell a Migration Story with Maps
Students become cartographers and trace migration patterns with maps.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/09/cartography.html

Ohio Department of Transportation: Ohio Maps
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has various Ohio maps available for online viewing, including Ohio Road Maps from 1912-2003. 
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/dist1/planning/ohio_maps.htm

OPLIN: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Fire insurance maps were produced to document structures, their locations and building materials. While many companies produced fire insurance maps, best known are the maps of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company.
The Ohio Public Library Information Network has secured the rights to 40,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for the state of Ohio, documenting structures in 391 towns and cities between 1867-1970. OPLIN has partnered with OhioLINK’s Digital Media Center to produce a searchable database of the maps. Access is available to anyone with an Ohio Public Library card.
http://www.oplin.org/

PBS: Lewis and Clark, The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: A Film by Ken Burns
A variety of lesson plans are available at the website of this PBS documentary that relate maps to content. See also: Interactive Trail Map.
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/index.html

US Department of the Interior: Working with Maps Lesson Plans from the US Geological Survey
Three geography themed lesson plans from the US Geological Survey department.
See: Map Adventures for grades K-3, What Do Maps Show? for grades 5-8, and Exploring Maps for grades 7-12.
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/lesson_plans.htm

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