Introduction:
At all points in its history, a significant proportion of the population of the united states had been born in other countries and regions.
This being the case, American history can never be understood by just looking within its borders. The culture and politics of the US have always been profoundly shaped by the material and emotional ties many of its residents have had to the places where they were born.
This map will allow us to begin to explore those connections at the basic level of demographic statistics.
Sources:
Some of the sources used in order for this project and many others from the same service to be available are by the following resources:
- Photogrammar
A web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photographs taken by the FSA and OWI Agencies of the US Federal Government.
- Southern Journey
Book that narrates the evolution of southern history from the found of the nation to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the south.
- Family Tree Magazine
A publication about genealogy and family history.
- Hosting Advice
A lab blending contemporary and static mapping to visualize American History.
- Census-Bureau
- History
- Books
Processes:
- Analyzation of the information and creating timelines, maps, spatial analysis, story maps, cartography, etc..
- Digitization of databases and making them interactive.
Presentation:
- Timelines
- Ranking / Numbers
- Interactive Maps
- Graphs / Legends
- Tables
- Colors
How to use / interact with this project:
In order to get a good understanding of how to interact with this project and all of its aspect we need to use this guide in order to get the most information out of it.
– Identify a new question you have that arose from breaking the project down?
- One question that rose from breaking the project down was, where can I fin the sources and data used here in the interactive page itself?
- I had to dig around and go to the universities website and then find answers to where they got the citations and data from. It would’ve been really nice if there was a citation or sources button that would lead me to the sources or data they projects derived from.
– What is the goal of this project?
- The goal of this project is to give the audience an interactive way of understanding the history of migration / Immigration to the United States according to the time period / Timeline.
– Which academic fields do you see the project in conversation with?
- Some academic fields that the project is in conversation with are, history, digital culture, religion, literature, economics, political science, statistics, etc…
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I think that this project is super exciting and relevant and I’m very glad that you covered it. I definitely agree that so much of American politics and history is shaped by the existing identities of immigrants before they came to America. I think that this project is an interesting way to look at the demographics of the US. I do think that the website would do better if you could select time periods to look at instead of just one massive time block or maybe just specific censuses.
Hey Jamal, thanks for the kind words! I appreciate your understanding regarding the limitation of selecting a specific time frame. It’s true that it would require a lot of data space to keep track of every immigrant. However, I am glad that we can still change between a time frame of every 10 years, just like the census. It’s still a helpful way to analyze immigration trends over time.