History’s Ledger fol. 1 · recto
Seven entries · provenance on every long quote · Atticus floats bottom-right

Read the record.
Decide for yourself.

A history built from primary sources — one that holds both the achievement and the cost of the same event, and hands the judgment back to you. A textbook lectures. This lets you open the document, see what we could not check, and interrogate a curator who cannot invent.

Tap sources. Open quotations. Ask Atticus from any page. Every long quotation is marked verified, cited-unchecked, or unverified — gaps printed, not hidden.

The Founding 1763–1789 · open the entry

What was achieved

A people argued their way out of an empire on a written principle, then built a government that limited itself, and handed power on without a sword. That government still stands.

What it cost

They wrote “all men are created equal” while holding roughly 700,000 people in bondage, and negotiated protections for that bondage into the structure of the state.

Both entries are true. A ledger counts both sides — that is the whole idea. Open this entry →

Neither half is our characterisation. Both are drawn from the same chapter and the same documents, and the weighing is left to you. Source · The Founding, 1763–1789

Atticus is always with you Floating button · every page

The curator stays bottom-right while you read. He answers only from these seven entries and their sources — and stops when he can’t cite. That refusal is the product working.


How every entry is built

The same six panels on every entry — the product’s spine, not a slogan about it.

I

Established

What the evidence strongly supports — achievement and cost side by side.

II

Sources

Quotations marked verified, cited-unchecked, or unverified, with context when we hold the document.

III

Conflicting

Where two accounts disagree by name — or an honest empty state when they do not.

IV

Unknown

What we could not check, counted and named. “Complete” is not a status we use.

Plus Read (the full entry) and optional Weigh (a scale that never gates the record).

Where this actually stands

Written
Seven entries — the Founding, Slavery & Emancipation, Reconstruction, Standard Oil, Civil Rights, the Cold War, and The Bullet and the Podium (1865–2024).
Live
The reading app above, and Atticus — answers only from these entries and their sources, cites what he uses, stops when the record does.
Not built
Full archive search across every document. Tap-to-open source cards are live inside each entry.
What we want now
Readers. Whether the writing is fair, whether anything is wrong, and whether you would use it. We would rather be early and honest than polished and vague.