Welcome to Histolines, a collaborative historical platform that works like a “social network of history” — but instead of posts about current events, it’s a living, breathing timeline of real historical events.
Whether you’re a professional historian, an academic, a student, or just someone who cares deeply about the past, this guide will walk you through how to navigate Histolines, add content, and help build the historical narrative.
Until now, history has often been explored in isolation, focusing on the stories of individuals or key events. But with Family Timelines, we’re introducing a whole new dimension to history: the ability to trace interconnected lives across generations, offering a richer, more personalized way to explore the past.
Histolines organized and shared over 27K thousands of artwork images from The Art Institute of Chicago to our interactive historical timeline of events, and images.
Hisolines Geography allows us to tab each event, picture or quote to where it occurred. With a substantial portion of our post geocoded now we can introduce Histolines Cities where you can pick any of the major cities in the world and look at the historical events that…
Histolines has just nearly doubled the number of photographs we have in our knowledge base by adding 20K photos released by NYPL open source project.
