GIS in the History Classroom
Image Credits
Introduction
Elin Ljung, “Lundy Canyon, Fall 2013”, courtesy of Mono Lake Committee .
“Virginia Pass, California, (September 14, 2013)”. 38.07o, -119.33o, 10526 feet. Land Sat. Google Earth Video Tour.
Thomas Hill, "Great Canon of the Sierra, Yosemite, 1871”, courtesy of the Crocker Art Museum . Crocker Art Museum image files and associated text are to be used for non-commercial, personal and private use only.
Why GIS
“Aerial View of Marysville”, San Francisco: Britton & Rey, 1871 in Calisphere . Image is in the public domain.
“Smash Tokio”, from “World War II Posters”, Washington, D.C.: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch, Bureau of Special Services, Record Group #44, National Archives. Image is in the public domain.
“Hell Threatens Your Home and Country”, Washington, D.C.: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch, Bureau of Special Services, Record Group #44, National Archives. Image is in the public domain.
Theodore Geisel, “Waiting for the signal from home...”, published by PM Magazine on February 13, 1942, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230. Special Collections & Archives, University of California, San Diego. Image is in the public domain.
“How People Could Have Been Exposed to Radioactive Materials from Hanford”, in The Technical Steering Panel of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project, Summary: Radiation Dose Estimates from Hanford Radioactive Material Releases to the Air and the Columbia River , April 21,1994, p 5. Image is in the public domain.
Time series of Poverty Flats photos from " South Fork Salmon River TMDL Five Year Review ”, McCall, ID: Department of Environmental Quality, March 2011, pp 47-53. Image is in the public domain.
Landsat Imagery ”. ESRI. accessed February 1, 2014.
Critical Thinking Word Cloud”, based on terms related to the concept Critical Thinking as found online at Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy< < p>
“Geographic Inquiry Graphic, “ from “ Geographic Inquiry: Thinking Geographically ” ,Redlands, California: ESRI Schools and Libraries Program, 2003.
In the Classroom
"Along Route 66 - Dust Bowl Images”, part of America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945, The Library of Congress, American Memory Collection. Images are in the public domain.
“Hetch Hetchy - Once & Future?” by permission of Brooks Anderson, BrooksAndersonArt.com "Hetch Hetchy: Requiem for a Valley”, in the collection of Principia College, Elsah, Illinois.
Technical Issues
“Photo of the Proposed Hetch Hetchy Reservoir”. in John Freeman, On the Proposed Use of a Portion of the Hetch Hetchy, Eleanor and Cherry Valleys for the Water Supply of San Francisco, California and Neighboring Cities , San Francisco: Board of Supervisors, 1912. Image is in the public domain.