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US Indian Boarding School History
An overview of the US Indian boarding school system - its origins, the policies of forced assimilation, the numbers of c…
USHistory.org
A free educational site covering American history from colonial settlement through the twentieth century in accessible n…
Using GPS in the Year 1565
A blog post that overlays a satellite-style track on a 1565 map to show how accurately old maps matched the real landsca…
V2Rocket
A resource site on the German A-4/V-2 rocket, collecting history, technical details and documents on the world's first l…
Voder Speech Synthesizer
A browser emulation of the 1939 Bell Labs Voder, the first electronic speech synthesizer, letting you play its keys and…
Voices of Democracy
A University of Maryland archive of great speeches in American history, with full texts and scholarly context for each a…
Voyager Golden Record
The story and contents of the Golden Record sent into space on Voyager in 1977, with its images, greetings, music and so…
Walking the Pilgrims' Way
A blog about walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester and London to Canterbury, with route notes and writing on the old…
War History Online
A large archive of articles on battles, weapons, and soldiers' lives from ancient warfare through the twentieth century'…
War Is a Racket
The text of Major General Smedley Butler's famous 1933 speech, in which a twice-decorated Marine describes his career as…
Warbirds Resource Group
An encyclopedia of historical military aviation, collecting information on warbirds and the aircraft of past conflicts f…
Warsaw Rising 1944
A ten-chapter story about Warsaw, the city that stood up to totalitarian regimes and rose from the ashes, centered on th…
Webstory
A UK historian's blog with news, reviews and long-form writing on religion, culture and the arts, from a writer and cons…
WenWare
A browser game that drops you into 360-degree historical scenes and asks you to guess when and where you are, with a dai…
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
A clear walk through Ada Lovelace's 1843 Note G, explaining how the first published program for Babbage's Analytical Eng…
What Is the Size of Yemen?
A fun investigation into a century-old geography misinformation, following one odd viewer comment back through old encyc…
What the Romans Found Funny
An essay on the comedies of Plautus and Terence, explaining the jokes, farce and wordplay that made Roman audiences laug…
What the White House Could Have Looked Like
A visual look at rejected designs for the White House, showing the grand, odd, and forgotten alternatives architects pro…
What's Up With All Those Equals Signs?
Explains why old emails quoted online are littered with equals signs, tracing the mystery to quoted-printable encoding a…
WhatWasThere
A map-based archive that overlays historical photographs onto modern street views so you can compare how a place looked…
When Future Historian Comes To 1910
David Friedman discovers a 1910 New York Times column featuring a time-traveling Future Historian who shares his name, a…
WhenTaken
A daily photo-detective game where you guess both when and where a picture was taken, testing your eye for clues in ever…
Where the Shadow Fell
An atlas of 11,898 solar eclipses from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE on one globe, where you name a city and see when the shadow l…
Which Year
A photo guessing game where you place real-world photographs in the year they were taken, with a new daily challenge and…
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