GEO-210: Cultural Geography Research

Association provide students, educators, practitioners, and partners with the resources they need to enter the field, develop their careers, and form professional friendships that can last a lifetime. Through annual and ongoing programs, events, and meetings, we aim to create a space in which all geographers—wherever they come from—will know they are valued, heard, and welcomed.

Diverse global community of innovators, thinkers, and practitioners; create and curate geographical knowledge, learning, and exploration; and advance geographic science and technologies to address society’s challenges and opportunities. Website includes several open publications and a podcast.

Full profiles provide information on history, politics, economic background of countries & territories, and background on key institutions.

Country profiles include basic background information, data, flags and maps.

Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Access Country Briefs, overviews, statistics and other World Bank publications on countries around the world.

Overview information from the History Channel.

Primary source sets from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

Harvard experts explore the migration of millions of African Americans from the South to urban hubs in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, one of the largest internal migrations in American history, Harvard University.

Primary resources from the National Archives.

From about 1915-1970, millions of African Americans moved from southern, primarily rural areas of the U.S. to urban areas in the north and west. This guide provides strategies for finding related visual resources.

Interview with Isabel Wilkerson, Fresh Air podcas, September 13, 2010, NPR.

U.S. Census Bureau

Organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation. Includes more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

Smithsonian article by Isabel Wilkerson, September 2016.

Conducts and supports research designed to guide and inform migration policy & practice and to enhance IOM’s delivery and contribute to a broader understanding of migration patterns and processes.

Provides data & global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.

Provides a variety of statistics over displacement due to forced and voluntary migrations.

Multilingual website centered around thematic maps. The site has over 150,000 maps, facts, graphics, infographics, videos, and photographs.

Comprises more than 350,000 items representing all areas of the world, provides comprehensive cartographic resources to serve constituents both within and beyond the university's walls.

Educational geography website offers perspectives on the world in the form of original maps and articles.

Search for a variety of data by country. From WorldBank.

Pew Research Center informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

Search for a wide variety of United States data on business & economy, education, emergency managment, employment, families, housing, income & poverty, international trade, and population.

Gateway to state-specific economic, geographic, cultural, and statistical knowledge.