Date of Award

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Harvey, David

Area of Concentration

Computer Science

Abstract

When studying historical events, it is important to have the context to deepen understanding. One way to do this is through imagery, allowing readers to visualize what they read in the text. This is especially important when geographical knowledge is lacking or important territorial shifts are mentioned. To address the topic of visual aids accompanying text, we chose five time periods that were historically significant to the Germanic region and the world, past or present. We chose the 30 Years’ War, German Zollverein, German Unification, World War I, and World War II. We gathered sources for each time period, summarized them, and found and edited relevant visuals. We then looked at other works of a similar nature that used the same software and used that information to help us decide on our design choices for our web application and summaries. We then describe the technologies used to create our application, mainly ArcGIS and W3 Spaces. These allowed us to create article-style summaries and a web application allowing others to see them. Then we describe some of the web application and summaries’ features, and our justifications for implementing them. This encompasses the pages we created for the application, buttons, and menus. We then address the limitations of our work, future work, how we expect the work to be used, and some use cases. Things such as limitations of ArcGIS, summary translations, and more regional history are discussed. Examples of how different people would use the application are then discussed.

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