While online resources such as Wikipedia provide quick and easy access to historical information, the vast quantity of facts and figures can make the browsing process overwhelming. Viewed out of direct context, it's also easy to miss the subtle and overt connections that link historical events and actors across time and space. Understandably, then, readers and members of the Scout staff alike were...

Founded in 1857, the venerable magazine The Atlantic has borne witness to the numerous changes and events that have occurred throughout modern history. For readers curious about how that history has intersected with their own lives (or a family member's life), the magazine's Life Timeline feature draws upon its archive to provide personal timelines of milestone historical events. After entering a...

TimelineJS is a JavaScript library for building "visually rich, interactive timelines." It is designed to be immediately functional without extensive custom code. In the most basic implementation, users construct a Google spreadsheet containing their data and tell TimelineJS where to find it. The example timeline on the project's front page was created in exactly this way. Clicking the "Make a...