CGHS Library

Hiking Yellowstone

The Goat posted this video about Yellowstone National Park.

Boston Public Library's Travel Posters

Almost every public library has a strong online presence, and city library sites are normally spectacular. Boston Public Library has some collections on flickr, including 351 travel posters from the 1920s and 1940s, when the average person could seriously travel if he wanted because of railways, luxurious ocean liners, and good highways. "Travel agents and ticket offices during this period were festooned with vivid, eye-catching posters, all designed to capture the beauty, excitement and adventure of travel." Now these same posters make nostalgic and artistic statements about a time long gone.

CIA World Factbook

The CIA World Factbook is a fantastic online resourse that includes maps, flags, and detailed information about every country in the world. The blog post from Government Book Talk discusses CIA history, and how the Factbook is compiled along with the purpose it serves.

Under Paris

Mapping America

As someone who remembers messing around with those huge Statistical Abstracts volumes and later the PDFs available by our Census Bureau, I am blown away with the easy data display possibilities presented by the New York Times’ research tool, Mapping America!

Students and teachers can now access and manipulate local Census data, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. (The Times notes that the data is based on samples and subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with lower populations.)

Maps are available for race and ethnicity, income, housing and families, and education.  Within each category, researchers may filter by a variety of related subcategories.  Data are searchable by address, zip code and city.  Maps are scalable and a simple shift of the mouse allows you to examine patterns and differences among and within communities.

The New York Times offers a Census Topic Page for a wealth of related content as well as this lesson on recent patterns in immigration.

Posted by joycevalenza on December 28th, 2010 on NeverEndingSearch.

There's No Place Like Home

The Flint Hills

 

Moonrise Over the Prairie by Jim Richardson

Travel in the Flint Hills

Flint Hills as featured in National Geographic
Jim Richardson Photography

Flint Hills as a geologic region

Flint Hills National Scenic Byway

Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge

Kaw Mission State Historic Site

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Geography Awareness Week

Hey, I just realized that it is Geography Awareness Week, and I cannot let such a momentous occasion pass us by without celebrating.  Truly, for a little Geography Awareness fun, go to Google Maps Mania, "an unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps."