PoP: Panorama of the Past – A Visual Summary of High School History

In this paper, we present an application of analytics, natural language processing and visualization to facilitate learning of History at the High School level. In particular, we demonstrate the use of a timeline with a summary of facts presented in CBSE textbooks on History for Classes 8, 9 and 10. This research focuses on providing a succinct summary of the voluminous chapters for easy and quick reference for reviews before a test. In particular, we present an automated framework that processes the textual content in history texts to create a timeline of all important historical events and a visual map showing all events that have taken place in relation to present day regions, with an appropriate legend carrying the year and event associated with a place. These facilitate the automated creation of pop quizzes raise questions pertaining to time, places and events, contributing to active learning, rather than a passive review of the material. Thus, the framework presented here envisages a better organization of the copious syllabus to make the process of studying history an interesting and engaging experience for the student.