On this TAHPDX website you will find pages that provide:

• HISTORICAL TOPIC SUMMARIES with LINKED PRIMARY DOCUMENTS as well as numerous websites and historic maps.
• CURRICULA developed for the historical themes with slideshows, GIS projects, DBQ exercises, and dramatic scripts.
• MAPS & GIS PROJECTS and other historical geographic information including spreadsheet data (e.g. US Census) and GIS-ready data files.
• Links to websites that offer general TEACHING & DATA RESOURCES.

Top Navigation Buttons: These links will direct you to the parent pages for the main sections of this website.
Side Navigation Buttons: These links provide a quick way to access specific historical topics and resource pages in this website.

History and geography come together to bring to life exciting stories of westward expansion.

The Oregon Settlement GIS Project contains a point layer that shows the original Donation Land Claims for the northern Willamette Valley with both census and genealogical data attached. The dataset also includes a georeferenced mosaic of the ca.1860 cadastral (property) and topographic surveys produced by the General Land Office. Where did people settle? What are their enduring legacies?

The Oregon Settlement Project comes in many GIS formats including ESRI's ArcView and ArcExplorer as well as Google Earth.

CLICK HERE to download a description of this project and for ideas on how to use it in your classroom.
CLICK HERE to get to the page where you can download the GIS projects and GIS-ready data files.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE INNOVATIVE TAHPDX PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS SUCH AS:

• Our new Vanport Google Earth Project

• Photo Slideshow of the Mighty Columbia River

Disclaimer:

The materials and resources on this website are freely available for educational and research purposes only. When using the resources, please cite the Community Geography Project, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University (www.pdx.edu/ims/).

All attempts have been made to include only public and copyright-free images and documents as direct downloads. In other cases, links have been provided to the website where the materials can be found. If you find documents on this site that are known to have current copyright protection, please contact the webmaster.

This website's minimum browser requirements: Firefox 1.0, Microsoft IE for Macintosh 5.2, Microsoft IE 5.0, Mozilla 1.0, Netscape Navigator 7.0, Opera 7.0 or Safari 1.0. Not W3C compliant for ADA accessibility.

You'll need Google Earth or ArcExplorer to use some of the interactive mapping activities downloadable from this website:

GOOGLE EARTH: Google Earth is a free, downloadable geographic data viewer developed by Google (it is not the same as Google Maps). You can download the Google Earth projects from this website and put them in your "my space" area on the Google Earth interface. In Google Earth you can see the data layers from a world perspective as well as perform functions such as turning layers on and off and clicking on features to see the attribute information attached to that feature. Get Google Earth.

ARCEXPLORER: ArcExplorer is a free, lightweight GIS data viewer developed by ESRI. This software offers an easy way to view prepackaged ArcExplorer GIS projects or create your own mapping projects using local GIS datasets. You can also perform a variety of basic GIS functions including display, ID, query, data retrieval and printing. There are ArcExplorer downloads for both a Windows and Macintosh platform. Get ESRI ArcExplorer.

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TAHPDX Contact Information:

Teaching American History Coordinator
Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies
Portland State University
PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207
Phone: 503-725-5869
Fax: 503-725-5199
Email: tahpdx@pdx.edu