The HistoryBrowser allows users to interactively browse historical events in a number of ways. It is a generative browser, allowing users to not only view preset collections of events, but to construct their own views of the events based on selected criteria. The HistoryBrowser makes it easy to construct complex queries about historical events, weaving maps, timelines, and data visualizations to encourage insight. The HistoryBrowser encourages primary source documents to speak more directly to the audience by providing visualizations of the relationships, chronologies, and causal events. They will often contain word-based narrative, in written or oral forms to help connect the resources, but the browser allows for a new form of storytelling, using guided visualizations. These visualizations use new methods of interpreting and presenting historic inquiry, such as animation over time, charts, maps, data, and interactive timelines to graphically show the relationships between multiple kinds of information. More Information about the HistoryBrowser A Historian's View of the HistoryBrowser How the HistoryBrowser Works A screencast tour of some HistoryBrowser Projects Flash required The live visualizations below require Adobe Flash v9 or later. You can download it for free here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer Jefferson's Travels to England The 2007 project is a visualization of Thomas Jefferson's 1786 trip to England. Click here Jefferson's Travels to England Visualization to see the live visualization.
Jefferson's Travels while in London England in 1786	A visualization of the mail Jefferson sent and received during the trip	A look at Benjamin West's school of artists
Jefferson's Travels to Poplar Forest The 2008 project looked at Jefferson's Travels to his retirement home and Plantation, Poplar Forest. Click here Jefferson's Travels to Poplar Forest Visualization to see the live visualization.
Jefferson's route from Monticello to Poplar Forest on a historic map.	The architecture of Jefferson's home at Poplar Forest	A calendar of the Tobacco production cycle
Texas Slavery Project A mapping of slave ownership in Texas from 1837 to 1845 by Andrew Torget. Click here Texas Slavery Project Visualization to see the live visualization.
Mapping of slaveholders and slaves by county	Interactive querying of slave populations	The Texas Slavery Project's Website
Vinegar Hill MemoryScape A visualization of a 1960 Charlottesville, VA urban renewal project. Click here Vinegar Hill Visualization to see the live visualization.
Interactive querying of Vinegar Hill property appraisals	Timeline of aerial photographs and news summaries from 1954-1992	Flick rimage site with 100's of photos from 1961
Other HistoryBrowser Projects James Smithson A look at Smithsonian benefactor James Smithson from 1760 to 1830 created for the Smithsonian Institution. Parksley A visualization of the town of Parksley, VA from 1884 to 1900 by Miles Brooks Barnes. Tools ArcGIS/AI map importer A tool to convert Maps in ESRI's ArcGIS & Adobe Illustrator format Preliminary XML Documentation Very rough documentation on how to make projects in the HistoryBrowser Preliminary HistoryBrowser Project Tool Very rough tool to edit/create projects in the HistoryBrowser Project Support Blog A support blog fro people creatingHistoryBrowser project Contact Bill Ferster bferster - @ - virginia.edu +1 (540) 592-7001 This project is partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities