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Historical Literacies

Chapter 11: Building an Argument with Quantitative Historical Evidence

Links to World Wide Web resources

  • Shows racial make up of nation and neighborhoods—shows de facto segregation

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

  • Shows changing patterns in immigration using maps showing all counties map showing population density by race from census records

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

  • Census data from 1790 to 1990

http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

  • Civil War battle statistics

http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html

  • Aids statistics

http://www.avert.org/aids-statistics.htm

  • Global population trends (historic and projected)

http://esa.un.org/unup

  • WWI casualties

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWdeaths.htm

  • Global statistics on a wide range of characteristics including crime, GDP, education spending, population, (with each of these and other categories broken down further)

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php -

  • A collection of graphs on historical topics

http://www.mpsaz.org/jefferson/staff/tepeterson/social_studies/history_graphs/

Downloadable instructional materials

  • A worksheet for the analysis of the 1910 census chart on immigration

Figure 11.2.docx