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“The Shape of History”<\/a> is a Digital Humanities project created by Lauren Klein from Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab. The project aims to create a reimagined, digitized, and interactive form of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s historical visualization system designed in 1856 that translates historical events into visual presentations of shapes and colors. Peabody’s goal and vision was to appeal to the “mind’s eye” and to prompt students and readers (of the images) to develop unique and individual interpretations of history.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n The “Further Readings” section lists the sources used to understand Peabody’s system, which include Bruce Rhonda’s <\/span>Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Garfton’s <\/span>Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and Peabody’s original textbook, <\/span>A Chronological History of the United States<\/span><\/i><\/a>. The section also includes many links to the researcher’s blog and additional writings on Elizabeth Peabody. Klein is inferred to have obtained historical event information from online databases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Processing:<\/strong><\/p>\n Processing data may include organizing, editing, correcting, querying, digitizing, enhancing, etc. This project digitizes Peabody’s system of translating historical events to grid images of shapes and colors. The “Explore” section organizes historical events by century, year, type of event, and countries involved, which determine where each event is presented on a grid and its color. Under the “Play” section, users are able to add their own events to a grid and customize the colors allowing users to create their own image and narrative of a historical timeline, demonstrating the original objective of Peabody. The project organizes, edits, and digitizes data to creative an interactive interface to simulate Peabody’s system of historical visualization.<\/span><\/p>\n Presentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n “The Shape of History” is presented in an interactive website built using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and open-source libraries, such as jQuery, Bootstrap, D3.js and two.js. The layout of the website itself is very interactive and resembles a grid format (like Peabody’s method) which allows users to navigate through from one square to another to go to new pages. Data is visualized through the grid images of organized historical events. The “Compare” page further offers users a visual comparison between the grid visualization of historical events to a tradition timeline.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, I think this was a very fun project that effectively revitalizes Peabody’s historical visualization method. It allows students and users, especially those who learn through more visual experiences, to learn historical events in a less conventional, but possibly more effective way (in certain cases). Peabody’s method created back in the 19th century was originally meant to be interactive, but with the abilities of data processing and digital technology today, “The Shape of History” project further enhances this intent by providing a web-accessible and more interactive experience for users. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The Shape of History” is a Digital Humanities project created by Lauren Klein from Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab. 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