{"id":697,"date":"2017-10-09T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=697"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:41:34","slug":"reverse-engineer-the-shape-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/09\/reverse-engineer-the-shape-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Engineer : The Shape of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Shape of History: Remaining Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Historical Visualization Work<\/a> is a website design to help people <\/span>understand<\/b> the Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s grid chart and use this method to <\/span>create<\/b> their own history grids. The creators of the website use modern technologies to make the tutorial of Peabody’s chart to <\/span>demonstrate<\/b> the grid chart step by step, and all viewer will be able to create their historical grid chart eventually.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the nineteenth-century writer, editor, and educator, who had come up with a method to <\/span>translate historical events into a grid chart<\/b> which abled her student to clearly visualize and easily memorize these events. Instead of a general timeline, Elizabeth chose to use grid chart that <\/span>each grid in a grid chart means one year<\/b>, and <\/span>one grid chart represents one century<\/b>. There are <\/span>9 small grids in each one-year based grid with different event keys<\/b>, and<\/span> different colors of events mean different countries<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The creators used following resources to learn about Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s grid chart idea, and they did the comparison with other methods of recording historical events as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Rhonda’s Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms<\/a> (Harvard University Press, 1999)–thorough biography of the subject<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton’s Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline<\/a> (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010)–the range of visual representations of history<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s A Chronological History of the United States<\/a> (1856)–Peabody’s original textbook.<\/span><\/p>\n

Processes:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As mentioned on the website, “The Shape of History” was created by using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript<\/strong>, and also made use of jQuery<\/a>, Bootstrap<\/a>, D3.js<\/a>, and two.js<\/a> from several open-source libraries. These tools helped creators import and combine the data objects, and make connections among related objects, text, and grid charts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presentations:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On this interesting website, there are <\/span>arrows<\/b> direct you to the next page include <\/span>Learn<\/b>, <\/span>Explore<\/b>, <\/span>Compare<\/b>, <\/span>How it works<\/b> and <\/span>Play, <\/b>etc. In the Learn session, you will see every historical event links<\/strong> to one title, one color, and one small grid in the grid chart. They also have the comparison between historical timeline and \u00a0Peabody’s grid chart. After showing you how the grid chart works, the next page will give you a chance to create your own historical grid chart!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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