Additional resources for further exploration
This Bringing History Home link on timelines explains their use and benefits.
http://www.bringinghistoryhome.org/assets/bringinghistoryhome/timelines.pdf
Click the link below for a roundup of timeline resources.
http://eduhowto.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/teaching-history-with-timelines/
The following resources from the Library of Congress focus on primary sources in timelines.
Another roundup of timeline resources includes “The Cartographies of Time,” a mash-up of timelines and historical maps, and five tech tools for creating timelines.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/02/history-of-timelines-and-5-tools-to.html#.UrYLBvvVl7o
The Massachusetts Study Project offers timeline teaching tips and basic questions, along with teaching resources and model lesson materials, at the link below.
http://www.msp.umb.edu/LocHistoryTemplates/MSPTimelines.html
At the link below, Digital History presents an interactive timeline of American history that directs users to media, textbook, primary sources, and teaching resources, as well as showing how graphics enhance timelines (see the top of the page for the timeline and use the “Drag Me” box to see a panorama of historical graphics).
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
This timeline of African-American history begins in 1619, with the arrival of African slaves in Virginia, and ends in 2016, with Simone Biles, "the first African-American and woman to bring home four Olympic gold medals in women's gymnastics at a single game."
https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history
From PBS, “Only a Teacher” offers an interactive look at the history of teachers and teaching.
