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Paleofuture
A site dedicated to the history of the future, revisiting old predictions about flying cars, robot servants, and tomorro…
Pantheon
A data visualization of human collective memory that maps more than 85,000 biographies of the most memorable people in h…
Parallel Lives
An interactive timeline of famous historical figures that shows who lived at the same time, so you can see which thinker…
Passport Collector
Historian Tom Topol's archive of vintage and antique passports, with richly illustrated stories about forgotten journeys…
People met in hotel lobbies
Selections from a Gilded Age Washington Post column that reported on whoever was spotted in the city's hotel lobbies, fu…
People of Influence Painting
An image-map painting of 103 famous people who changed the world, with mouse-over name tags and a link from each figure…
Pessimists Archive
A newsletter and archive collecting historical moral panics over new technologies, told through old newspaper clippings…
Photogrammar
A web platform for searching and mapping 170,000 photographs made for the US Farm Security Administration between 1935 a…
Pieces of History
The US National Archives blog, sharing discoveries from its vast holdings of billions of pages of records through storie…
Pirates and Privateers
A monthly online publication on maritime piracy and privateering from ancient times to the present, with articles, book…
Pivotal
An interactive game that drops you into real crossroads from history, business, and sport, asks what you would do, and t…
Point in History
An interactive map that shows the historical political boundaries around any location you pick, so you can see who ruled…
Pointguessr
A GeoGuessr-like game that asks you to pinpoint both time and place in photos from 1880 to 2024, with a daily challenge…
Poison, Poison Everywhere
An essay that opens with a high school teacher's wild story and goes on to explore the surprising history and prevalence…
Popular Archaeology
An online magazine covering current excavations, research, and volunteer opportunities in archaeology, aimed at both sch…
Popular History Books
A blog that reads and reviews popular history books, spotlighting new releases you might otherwise overlook with honest,…
Population Pyramid: United States
An animated population pyramid for the United States from 1950 to 2026 that shows how the age and sex structure of the c…
Profanity in Oscar-Winning Movies
An interactive visualization charting the swearing in 868 Oscar-winning films from 1927 to 2021, testing whether movies…
Project 1917
A day-by-day retelling of the year 1917 through the real diaries, letters and memoirs of people who lived it, from tsars…
Project '44
A free interactive map of the Second World War with over 150,000 unit positions across 15 nations, day by day, each trac…
Project Athena
A map-based memorial to the war in Afghanistan, with geotagged photos, IED incident maps, and veteran stories from 20 ye…
Quote Investigator
Garson O'Toole traces who really said famous quotations, with carefully researched articles that follow a saying back th…
Radiooooo
A "musical time machine" -- pick a country and a decade to hear the music that played there.
Random Lives
Biographical stories of randomly sampled people from across all of human history, with a button that drops you into one…
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