The HistoryBrowser

Jefferson’s Travels is an interactive look at Thomas Jefferson’s life organized around where he was and when. A specially constructed interactive browser provides for fast and easy navigation along the time and place dimensions, and offers an opportunity to explore Mr. Jefferson’s life by examining primary source documents and information.

The project is a joint collaboration with the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH), the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, Poplar Forest, and fourth year history majors at the University of Virginia. and was partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

These visualizations are the product of a new Internet-based browser facilitates a new form of historical narrative when the story can be told not just through words, but by interactive visualizations showing relationships using historically vetted primary source documents and data.

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.

Fo more Information about the HistoryBrowser:

HistoryBrowser website

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 letter to Jefferson and a
transcript of it

A map of the people Jefferson
met while in England

The changing face of European
alliances and conflicts

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 agricultural production of
Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation

A calendar of the
Tobacco production cycle

The architecture of Jefferson's home at Poplar Forest

A visualization of books in
Jefferson's retirement library

The 2008 Class, instructors, and partners at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Jefferson's Travels Class Websites

2007
2008 (search for Jefferson's Travels)

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


*Jefferson’s Travels* is an interactive look at Thomas Jefferson’s life organized around where he was and when. A specially constructed interactive browser provides for fast and easy navigation along the time and place dimensions, and offers an opportunity to explore Mr. Jefferson’s life by examining primary source documents and information. The project is a joint collaboration with the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH), the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, Poplar Forest, and fourth year history majors at the University of Virginia. and was partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These visualizations are the product of a new Internet-based browser facilitates a new form of historical narrative when the story can be told not just through words, but by interactive visualizations showing relationships using historically vetted primary source documents and data. 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. Fo more Information about the HistoryBrowser: HistoryBrowser website 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 letter to Jefferson and a transcript of it
A map of the people Jefferson met while in England	The changing face of European alliances and conflicts	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 agricultural production of Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation	A calendar of the Tobacco production cycle
The architecture of Jefferson's home at Poplar Forest	A visualization of books in Jefferson's retirement library	The 2008 Class, instructors, and partners at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Jefferson's Travels Class Websites 2007 2008 (search for Jefferson's Travels) 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