We’ve started to play with the images of the objects we photographed at the Wende Museum last month–objects we’ll be using in the 1989 project database. Here are just three examples of the sorts of things we’re planning to include: Object 1 This first object is a flashlight. It’s dimensions are approximately 4″ tall by…
Tag: World History
The Timeline of 1989
One of the things we want to build into our 1989 project is a timeline of events that will help students to visualize what happened in some sort of chronological sequence. Thanks to a tip from our PhD student Ken Albers, I’ve been playing with the open source timeline creator at Simile–an MIT project. The…
Visualizing Geography
A friend just alerted me to the website Worldmapper, which I highly recommend. Their own description says: “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.” But this simple sentence does not convey the interesting possibilities for visualizing historical information on a global scale….
The Material Culture of Communism
My colleague Josh Greenberg and I have just spent two very interesting days at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. Our main goal during the visit was to photograph objects from the everyday life of the communist era in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for our 1989 project. The Museum has quite the collection…