Geography

Online Journals and Magazines

Websites
  • ePodunk
    Provides in-depth information about more than 46,000 communities around the country including geocoded information about thousands of parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and other places across America.
  • Expeditions & Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
    Site includes 9 scientific expeditions of the late 19th century in Central and South America, the Pacific Islands, East Asia, and Samaria and includes photographs, drawings, maps and manuscripts.
  • GeoPlatform - Gulf Response
    Free interactive tool that provides near real time information about the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster and the response and cleanup efforts.
  • Google Earth
  • Google Maps
    Detailed street and terrain maps, robust locator tools to find addresses/businesses/places, and a route planner for traveling by car, public transit, or walking.
  • HUD USER
    Primary source of reports and data on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, and city planning in the U.S.
  • Latin American Network Information Center
    LANIC includes continually editorially reviewed directories for over 12,000 unique URLs throughout Latin America and the world.
  • Map History/History of Cartography
    Digitized early maps. U.S. maps predate 1900 and British maps predate 1800.
  • Modern Language Association Language Map
    Maps and tables for the number of people speaking one of thirty languages plus seven less commonly spoken groups of languages in the United States.
  • National Atlas
    Maps by region as well as by type political/geographic maps, maps based on biology/wildlife, environment, agriculture, weather, and history.
  • National Geographic
    A multimedia database designed for educators and students.
  • National Weather Service
  • NationMaster.com
    A handy way to graphically compare nations.
  • Polar Exploration Photo Site
    The Scott Polar Institute of the University of Cambridge site includes 20,000 photos from 150 years of history.
  • UNEP: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
    An interactive atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme, including natural and human-made changes in our planet over the last 30-40 years.
  • Western Waters Digital Library
    Includes digitized materials from 12 academic libraries in eight states, covering water in the western half of the US. Searchable and has lots of multimedia.
  • Wilderness.net
    Educates users about wilderness in the US and the value of public land preservation.
  • World Factbook
    Includes facts on about 266 countries and locations.