Interactive Histories · Data Atlases · War-Room Cartography
Eighteen instruments for reading power: empires rising, crowns waning, cities filling and emptying, peoples on the move — centuries made scrubbable, built from archival and census data, with every number labeled for exactly what it is.
1066 — 1997
Nine centuries of British power — acquisition, apogee, and the forty-year dissolution — territory, trade, and subjects under one slider.
Archival series · World geometry · Era engine
In transit1087 — 2025
From the Conqueror's writ to the constitutional present: a 938-year decay curve of real royal power, charted event by event.
Constitutional record · Power index · Reign dossiers
In transit1936 — 1953
The purge years in oxblood and gold — NKVD archival arrest and execution figures, rendered wave by wave in a constructivist system.
NKVD archives · Constructivist grid · Wave annotations
In transitAD 100 — 600
A million souls down to a town of thousands: the ancient world's greatest city draining across five centuries of plague, sack, and severed grain.
Ancient proxies, labeled · Supply linkage · Event flags
In transit1933 — 1945
Twelve years from seizure to ruin — production, fronts, and the cold arithmetic of defeat.
Harrison GDP data · Front tracking · Initiative index
In transitNov 1942 — Feb 1943
Stalingrad as a war diary: twenty-two dated entries from encirclement to capitulation, with the airlift ledger that decided it.
Day-by-day diary · Airlift ledger · Drill-down
In transit1910 — 1970
Six million northbound: the Black South dot by dot — one per 10,000 people from state census tables — streaming along the rails into the arrival constellations, events marked from Tulsa to the Harlem Renaissance.
WP56 state census series · Population dot field · Event cartography
In transit1790 — 2020
Three thousand counties of real census data: who lived where across the whole republic, one dot at a time.
Census county data · Dot atlas · Growth curves
In transit1800 — 2020
A gravity model carves the republic into metro city-states — spheres, satellites, and tribute across two centuries.
Gravity model · Metro populations · Satellite dossiers
In transit1900 — 2025
How a machine for cooling air picked up the American population and moved it south — AC adoption against census flow, franchise moves included.
Census series · AC penetration · Sunbelt mechanism
In transit1779 — 2026
Nashville from Fort Nashborough to the boom — first volume of the Cumberland Series.
Cumberland series · Regional atlas · Era engine
In transit1769 — 1860
Two hundred fifteen counties at their true founding dates, eighteen forts, and the roads through the Gap that filled them.
County founding record · Migration routes · Census curves
In transit1600 — 2024
Port becomes counting-house: four centuries of inversion, with a Booth-palette poverty map and a demographic lens.
Booth palette · Dock-to-finance inversion · Demography
In transit1900 — 2025
1.85 million at the 1950 peak down to 630,000 — arsenal, exodus, and the unmaking of an American boomtown.
Census record · Industrial ledger · Block decay
In transitFounding — 2035
Every major city, neighborhood by neighborhood — demography, home values, amenities, and a forecast layer with honest confidence intervals.
NHGIS tracts · MapLibre + PMTiles · Forecast fans
In development1940 — 1945
A first-person seat at the German situation conferences — an anti-Hitler study of an irrational command structure, with lethal moments and divergence branches.
Historical sourcing · Branch engine · 3D staging
In transitAD 79
A browser JRPG set in the last hours under Vesuvius — historical empathy as game design.
Narrative engine · Period detail · Empathy thesis
In developmentApril 1865
The closing of John Wilkes Booth’s mind, structured like the tragedies he performed — record and counterfactual kept visibly apart.
Branch narrative · Historical record · Manhunt cartography
In transit1936 — 1945
Seventeen conferences, five acts, thirteen endings: a cult of personality consuming a state, played from inside the room. Anti-glorification by design.
Conference record · Sycophancy mechanics · Collapse sequence
In transitJuly 1863
Three nested tiers — war, campaign, battle — with a modeled win-probability bar and counterfactual toggles. The chassis slated to carry a full WWII treatment.
Three-tier engine · Modeled retrodiction · Counterfactuals
In transit