Timeline Help - History TimelinesMy collection was last updated Nov 23, 2008. Watch it grow in the what's new blog. Below I explain how I research data, facts and figures. My goal is to help succeed history students, teachers and professors with creative contemporary and ancient history timeline project ideas. Discover the past and enjoy! Table of Contents
My Ten Categories To keep the format nice and tidy, and easy to access I have categorized them for your convenience. No difficult entries or find it out yourself click till you drop navigation outline. There are ten main categories: Countries and Regions, Politics, Music, Science and Technology, Society and People, Sports, Space, Food and Health, Religion and Spirituality, and Miscellaneous. Select the one you like to read or need for a history education project. My Definition The definition I use for preparing and researching a timeline is a representation of a chronological sequence of significant activities, events and people in a certain time period, presented in an easy order of dates. I offer cited works, recommendations and interesting links to primary source information, quotations or citations. If exact dates are not available or disputed by historians, a year or decade is given. My Research Efforts I love to dive into the past and discover great or important world events or special people in world history. Sure, it takes time, serious effort, investigative research and accuracy to select and refine key facts I like to know and show, till they are ready for publication for high school, college and university students, teachers and professors, and anyone else who is interested in history. My References All history timeline information, dates and facts are retrieved from library books, journals, encyclopedias and magazine artcles. At each page you will find short smart bibliographies, and a list of valuable cited works and recommended references to more interesting information. These cross-referencing bibliographies are styled in the general citation format of APA citation, the most commonly used style in education and sciences. I prefer the 5th edition of the American Psychological Association. Is It BCE or BC? I use the terms BCE (which means Before Current Era) and CE which means Current Era. Some chronologies have BC (Before Christ, and AD Anno Domini - meaning Year of Our Lord) notations, referring to the Christian calendar. But I rather choose for BCE and CE, because they are most common and accepted abbreviations historians and educators use in designating and exploring the era of prehistory, the ancient antiquity and the common era. Every Week a New One I try to publish each week a new event timeline, it takes about three days of researching library, magazine and journalistic sources. And approximately up to four days of writing and grouping all facts and data in the perfect chronological order. My Blog My world history timeline guide offers many world events timelines. If you subscribe to my free blog, you know whenever any new web pages appear, offering you more milestones on people, inventions, and places, et cetera. A handy RSS feed, it is very simple to install and operate! Read the What is an RSS Feed? info page for more detailed information. Lets watch my database grow over time! Contact If you discover significant events or facts that are inaccurate or missing, please let me know! Use my contact form if you want to send me feedback, a message, a remark, a suggestion or a question on for example my world events index and time line chronologies. Send me your feedback - but please be gentle and polite - you are welcome! Tip Bookmark this reference guide right now, and add this historical website resource to your social bookmarks too! Use those neat little icons below. You never know when you will need it ...  Perfect timelines and good references, congratulations! This is very good educational stuff for my history class. Ideal for preparing my history classes! Every week I use the rss blog to find out what new surprise Jonathan has prepared for us. Interesting information for everyone who wants to know about the major events in world history. No difficult lists of unnecessary data, I like these easy chronologies of world events. Very interesting facts in a form I can use to back up my project ideas research for university. The historical events I want to learn about, thank you! Yes, really easy to access and this database triggers me to read more about the subjects. Every teacher should bookmark this reference guide! Thank you for stopping by. And come back if you like to find more. Good luck with your project ideas!
Jonathan W. Nickolsen, Author and Timeline Maker
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