American Legal History

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TimelineProject 3 - 30 Nov 2009 - Main.KeikoHayakawa
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I'm working on a timeline to show when events that have been discussed in class occurred in relation to each other. The main questions are probably what information to include and how it should be presented. My first instinct was to try to use a spreadsheet to display the information, with events categorized in columns, as such:
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 I am working on pulling more events from my class notes (including events after 1800 which I'd like to include, of which there are many), but wanted to make sure that this particular format was working. I'm not sure I've thought the color scheme through sufficiently; for the most part, I tried to stay within the same color families for similar kinds of events (e.g. the formation of settlements, the ratification of legal documents), but I don't know if this is working to tie events together or if it is just confusing. I am also not sure about the vertical lines; I wanted to try to help particular events stand out that way, and also to help make clear what happened before and after those particular events. I also am pretty sure I need to change the size of the timeline, but am not sure how to do this. I can reduce the height of the document, but in terms of length I'm not sure that a timeline that effectively requires you to scroll through it is particularly useful.
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<		Part of the idea for this particular setup comes from the attached table, which I found in Edward Tufte's Italic text_Envisioning Information_Italic text.
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>		Part of the idea for this particular setup comes from the attached table, which I found in Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information.
 

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