From two battalions raised by the Continental Congress in 1775 to the Corps of today: the wars and battles the Marines fought, the leaders who shaped them, and the traditions they carry. How to read it. Wars and campaigns are durations, wi…
From Christian calendars and the medieval evidence for seasonal folklore to today’s costumes, candy, films, charity collections and public festivals: a history of Halloween as a changing, shared celebration. Explore the story. Illustrated …
From the modern race’s invention in the 1890s to the ratified sub-two-hour men’s marathon in 2026: Olympic champions, women’s fight for inclusion, wheelchair racing, the city-marathon boom, record progression, technology and the culture of…
From Llull's combinatorial wheels and Leibniz's calculus of reasoning to today's large language models: ideas, programs, machines, games, people, companies and the policy around them. Moments are tagged (symbolic AI, machine learning, neur…
From the first shots of the Revolution to the twenty-first century: wars, amendments, discoveries and the movements that changed who the rights in the founding documents applied to. How to read it. Chapter headings mark the eras. Wars and …
From Frege's Begriffsschrift and Russell's theory of types to the lambda calculus, Curry–Howard, ML and Haskell, dependent types and proof assistants, and functional ideas in mainstream languages. Moments are tagged (type theory, logic, la…
From the Ishango bone to formalized proofs: arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analysis, probability, logic and topology across Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Chinese, Islamic and European mathematics and beyond. Moments are tagged by ar…
From counting boards and the first algorithms to deep learning: the theory, machines, languages, algorithms, systems, networks, software practice, security and AI that make up computer science, in calendar dates. Moments are tagged and col…
A biography of Abraham Lincoln, from his birth in a Kentucky cabin to his funeral train: the frontier, New Salem, the law, his family, his return to politics over slavery, the debates with Douglas, the presidency and the Civil War, emancip…
Ancient Egypt from its Predynastic cultures and its unification under Narmer to the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman annexation in 30 BCE: its periods, dynasties and major reigns, its monuments, battles and treaties, and the writings w…
From the first farming villages, about 7000 BCE, through Uruk's first cities and writing, Sumer, Akkad, Ur, Hammurabi's Babylon, the Kassites and the Assyrian empires, to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon and its fall to Cyrus in 539 BCE, with Alex…
A biography of George Washington on one line: his Virginia boyhood and surveying, the Virginia Regiment and the French and Indian War, Mount Vernon and the people enslaved there, the House of Burgesses, eight and a half years in command of…