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