What's new
- 2026-07-01 — Map metrics now respect their real data year
Capability, assertiveness, fragility and linguistic-diversity are each a single present-day snapshot, not a time series. Scrubbing the timeline to an earlier year used to still paint that modern value on the map; it now correctly shows as no data before the snapshot year.
- 2026-07-01 — Linguistic diversity map layer and Atlas axis
A new choropleth layer and Atlas axis show each country's linguistic fractionalization, built from CIA World Factbook language-composition data for 267 polities — the Factbook's last edition before its February 2026 discontinuation.
- 2026-06-29 — Browse history by theme
Event-type filters and a new Thematic Threads view let you follow a single thread — wars, revolutions, treaties, coups — across every era, country, or time window instead of browsing chronologically.
- 2026-06-28 — Highlight and annotate any page
Person and polity pages now support inline annotations — highlight a passage, add a note, and find it later in a single "Highlights & notes" list on your Saved tab.
- 2026-06-27 — Innovations now link to the people behind them
Over 50 historical innovations — from Phoenician and Spartan advances through the Renaissance to the 20th century — now link to biography pages for the inventors and scientists behind them.
- 2026-06-25 — City pages get narrative history
Major cities on the map now carry a short narrative history alongside their founding date and population data, and duplicate place records were merged for cleaner search results.
