Digital History & Story Maps
Creating your Own Personal Story Map
We are going to start this session with you creating your personal life story map. It can be real or completely fictional (your choice). Go to: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/
and Sign in with ENTERPRISE ACCOUNT typing clemson.maps.argis.com. Click CONTINUE. Sing in USING YOUR CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT.
Take a look at a few story maps and scroll down the page until you see the CREATE STORY button. Click that button and select MAP TOUR. This allows creating a tour of different places in the world.
In the Welcome to the Map Tour Builder window that appears, select They are already online - double wheel for advanced options. Click Start a new Tour.
Edit the title by clicking the pencil next to Edit me! - Your Name Story Map
Subtitle - Welcome to my personal map tour. It is not finished yet!
First stop: Your birthplace
Click Add to create your first stop in your map tour.
In the Media tab, select a picture of the place you were born. Go to Google Images (right click - Copy Image location - in Firefox, Copy image address - in Chrome).
Go to the Information tab, under Name, type the name of your town or city. Under Caption, write something about your town or yourself.
In the Location tab, enter the name of your town or address in the search box. Click Add tour point.
Click SAVE every time you add a stop to make sure your map tour keeps all the latest edits.
Second stop: High school, College, Vacation
Click the Add button to create your second stop. Follow the same steps as before.
Sharing your map tour
Click the SHARE button. If you want to share it with friends and family, click Share publicly. You can email or text the link and people will be able to see your map tour. Here is my example: http://arcg.is/2gtSa4b
Louisiana Purchase in 1803
LINK to the live WebGIS Map - http://arcg.is/1xvC7Pg
By William Morris. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42826877
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based GIS platform that allows you to upload and share all your data on the web. You get access to external sources of data that allow you to create your own mash-ups to publish as interactive maps or web apps. You can create story maps, time-based maps, or map journals and all you need is a browser!
Getting Started with ArcGIS Online
Log into ArcGIS Online: Go to arcgis.com, click the Sign In button on the top right corner and select ENTERPRISE ACCOUNT. In the Sign In window, type clemson in the box so that the URL is clemson.maps.arcgis.com. Click CONTINUE. In the next window, select USING YOUR CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT. Enter your regular Clemson ID and password and you are logged in!
Click on Map. Here is where you will create your own mash-ups that will build your interactive web maps and applications.
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence and the Revolutionary War in the United States, was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America.
Early fighting took place primarily on the North American continent. France, eager for revenge after its defeat in the Seven Years' War, signed an alliance with the new nation in 1778 that proved decisive in the ultimate victory. The conflict gradually expanded into a world war with Britain combating France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
Click on the Add content section. Select Search for Layers, in the window that appears, change the In: box for ArcGIS Online. In the Find box, complete the following actions:
- American Revolutionary War Battles - to be filtered by year (Find: revolutionary wars)
- 13 colonies 1763 - to be symbolized by subregion (Find: british colonies)
- American Revolution Base Map - Web Mercator Edition - change transparency (Find: colonial new england)
- PrimarySource Map King Philips War Storymap (Find: colonial new england)
- Antique_base (Find: antique base map)
Tasks:
- Show all battles and 13 colonies as one country and one war. Quickly symbolize and categorize the colonies into the three colonial regions and classify the battles by year. In a book these maps would probably be on a different pages. With GIS it’s the same map.
- Filter the map to show only the battles in 1775.
- Play with transparency with PrimarySource Map King Philip to see the difference between the reference map and the true scale of the territory.
- Add map notes to hyperlink to and incorporate primary source analysis within the same map.
- Example how we can crowdsource this map by everybody adding their research and opinions with the search option. Everybody can add their own placemarks and annotate key people, events and battles, documents, images and even videos.
Creating a Story Map
Save your map by going to Save, Save As. Give a name and some tags to your map.
Click the Share button, make your map public and select Create a Web App.
In the window that appears, select Story Map Journal.
American Civil War
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000 USD) and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs ($3,750,000 USD) for a total of sixty-eight million francs ($15,000,000 USD). The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma,Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River (plus New Orleans); and small portions of land within the present Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Its population was around 60,000 inhabitants, of whom half were colored.
ArcGIS Online layers:
- Civil War - Slave vs. Free States (1861) - Search: Civil war States 1861
- Civil War - Confederate vs. Union States (1861) - Search: Civil war States 1861
- United States 1862 - Search: civil war
- Civil war Battles - Search: civil war
- Fort Sumter - Search: Fort Sumter, civil war