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WhizzPast
A history site for learning about the action-packed past, with illustrated stories on historical events, famous figures,…
Whole Earth Index
A nearly complete online archive of Whole Earth publications, the magazines and catalogs descended from the Whole Earth…
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
A short history of how the Roman mile of 1000 paces became 5280 feet, as Elizabethan England tried to reconcile the mile…
Why Don't We Use Awnings Anymore
An architecture history piece asking why window awnings covered nearly every building before the 1950s and what replaced…
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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
The full text of Ernst Stuhlinger's 1970 reply to a nun in Zambia who asked why money goes to space while children starv…
Why Medieval City-Builder Games Are Historically Inaccurate
A medievalist's look at what city-building video games get wrong about medieval towns, from tidy street grids to the way…
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
An explainer on the color theory and industrial psychology behind the pale seafoam green used in control rooms and facto…
Wiki Timeline
Turns Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines and lets you compare two historical figures side by side, such as Ge…
WikiArt
A visual encyclopedia of fine art with hundreds of thousands of works searchable by artist, style and era.
Wikiciv
A community-edited wiki manual for building civilization from scratch, with practical guides on agriculture, medicine, m…
Wikitrivia
A trivia game built from Wikipedia where you place historical events and inventions on a timeline in the right order, wi…
Wild About Harry
A blog by Houdini expert and author John Cox exploring the life and legacy of Harry Houdini in history, media, and pop c…
Wild East
A travel blog on Eastern Europe, introducing regions from Croatia to Russia with practical tips, sights to see and thing…
William Faulkner's Nobel Banquet Speech
The text of William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature banquet speech, a short address on the writer's duty and t…
Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954
A HistoryLink account of the 1954 wave of mysterious pits and dings in car windshields across Washington State and the m…
Wisden
The digital home of cricket's 160-year-old almanack, with features, match analysis, and debate about the game's history…
Wordorigins.org
A word-history site and forum dissecting the real etymology behind common English words and phrases, correcting popular…
Works in Progress
A magazine of deeply researched, optimistic essays on economic growth, technology, and progress, illustrated with origin…
World History Encyclopedia
A nonprofit encyclopedia of world history with peer-reviewed articles, maps, and timelines covering civilizations from M…
World JS
A browser simulation that compresses a brief history of humankind into a running JavaScript demo, so you can watch civil…
World Radio History
A free archive of thousands of radio, music and electronics publications, from vintage broadcasting magazines to hobbyis…
WTF Happened In 1971?
A scrolling gallery of charts showing wages, prices, debt and other economic indicators that seem to change direction at…
WW2 in 100 Objects
A virtual exhibition drawing on 25 Dutch war and resistance museums, presenting 100 objects that tell the story of the S…
WW2 Links
A curated collection of educational World War II resources with a Canadian focus, linking to archives, firsthand account…
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