About a year ago, we published a detailed blog post about Simile timeline, a tool for (fairly) easily creating interactive web-based timelines, such as the example below.
There are a couple of ways to create these timelines, and CIT has a student assistant in Spring 2010 who can help faculty make them. If you are a Duke faculty member interested in having one or more timelines as learning materials for your courses, and would like to have us create them for you or teach you how, please contact us as soon as possible at learninginnovation@duke.edu and we’ll help you with your project.