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Historical maps, timelines, primary sources and the strange experience of seeing a moment in time laid out as an interface.
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India's monuments, crafts and regional history laid out as something you explore rather than something you revise.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
Over a hundred thousand high-resolution scanned maps, georeferenced and free to zoom into more or less indefinitely.
One search across thousands of American libraries, archives and museums, with curated exhibitions layered on top.
Fifty million digitised items from European museums, libraries and archives, behind one search box.
An interactive world atlas you can scrub year by year from 3000 BC, watching every border redraw itself.
Every event on Wikipedia plotted as a dot across fourteen billion years, filterable down to one category at a time.
Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.
Photographs, manuscripts, sheet music and film from the largest library in the world, mostly free to reuse.
The searchable index of American federal records, running from founding documents to recently declassified memos.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.
Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.
Stanford's model of travel in the Roman world — pick two cities and get the cost, season and days by road or sea.
A daily high-resolution photograph from the early twentieth century, usually with commenters identifying the buildings.
Millions of images and 3D scans from the Smithsonian's collections, released with no copyright restrictions at all.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.