Google News Timeline

Do you love a good timeline? I know I do, I am a visual learner and I love to see my information in a graphically organized manner.  This said, I have a great site for other folks like me – Google News Timeline.   This is Google’s blurb about the timeline:  Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.

This is so fascinating! Once you get to the site go in and “Add More Queries.” You can select what sources you want to look at, such as every Time Magazine cover since 1924. I ran on search on Soap Operas in the TV Show category  after I saw an entry for All My Children. I had no idea there were so many soaps that had come and gone from TV.  Just clicking on the Artworks category took me to 1507 and Mona Lisa.

This is a whole lot of fun, but I do recommend double-checking the sources to make sure they can be used as a primary source if you plan on using this to help write a paper. — Jill