The Art of Mapping History (Life and Letters)
Life and Letters, the print and digital magazine of the UT College of Liberal Arts, featured ClioVis, the digital timeline visualization tool developed by Erika Bsumek's PTF initiative, in their November 2023 issue. The article "The Art of Mapping History," written by , highlights how Bsumek developed ClioVis, and how it emphasizes the connections between events, requiring users to explain causation or correlation, thereby fostering critical thinking and research skills.
Read the full article here, or read the August 2019 Life and Letters Blog post "Timeline Tool Connects the Dots" by Alex Reshanov.
Related Initiatives
The Keys to Understanding History: Unlocking Digital Timelines
This project started out with a simple idea: From my original proposal, we noted that “Current historical timelines are not interactive, nor do they enable students to understand connections between different events. They are good at showing chronology, but are not good at illustrating how specific events are influenced by a whole host of different historical factors.”