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History Research

Data, Maps, & Genealogy

Scholarly resources in all areas of historical research at Boston College

Data and Statistics

American FactFinder
Population, housing, and income data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Gapminder
Select world data from WHO, UN, World Bank, International Agency for Research on Cancer and others. Offers interactive visualizations.
Historical Census Browser
Visualized data drawn from the U.S. Census, 1790–1960.

Historical Statistics of the United States
The authoritative numerical history of the United States.
International Historical Statistics
Data from 1750–2010 covering a wide range of socio-economic topics.

Maddison Project
Continuing the work of Angus Maddison, offers estimates of world economic growth (GDP per capita) 1-2010 AD.

Social Explorer
Provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information. Creates maps and reports to help users visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history. Includes the U.S. Census from 1790–2000 and all annual updates from the American Community Survey.

Total Economy Database
GDP, population, employment, productivity, and more for 123 countries from 1950–present. Formerly from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, and now maintained by the Conference Board.

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection
Focuses on 16th–21st century maps of North and and South America, as well as maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps.
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
Home of the Boston Public Library map collection. Their holdings, some digitized, extend from the 15th century–present.
Old Maps Online
Explore a Google Map interface, limiting by date ranges, and then link out to appropriate digitized historical maps from the various partner collections (including the British Library, the New York Public Library, and others).
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Fantastic collection of U.S. and world maps from the University of Texas at Austin.

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition
With 7 billion genealogical records from across the globe and millions of family trees, this is the world’s largest online family history resource.

Digital Humanities

The term 'digital humanities' implies the application of new technology to various humanities disciplines, especially to aid in new directions of research or to add new speed, accuracy, or collaboration not otherwise possible.

It can include analysis across a large corpus of text, application of geographic information systems to a set of data, visualization techniques to illustrate material in a new way, or many other possible tools and practices.

The Libraries' Digital Scholarship group is tasked with exploring and supporting this work at Boston College.

More Data & Mapping Resources

The databases listed here are just the beginning of our statistical and spatial data collections. See the Data/Statistics/GIS Portal for a more complete list.

Last Updated: May 15, 2019 1:27 PM
Subjects: History
Tags: ADHS, HIST