1415 → now → what comes next
History as an
evidence trail.
This timeline is the chronological spine of the archive. As Files publish, eras will connect to people, communities, institutions, places, receipts, consequences, and the next investigation instead of becoming a flat list of dates.
Timeline state: the structure is live; File-level chronology will populate from canonical publication data. Until then this page remains
noindex rather than pretending an empty scaffold is a finished archive.1415–1491Late medieval / pre-contact Atlantic world
1492–1606Early contact and exploration
1607–1699Colonial expansion
1700–1762Imperial North America
1763–1789Revolution and founding
1790–1814Early republic
1815–1847Expansion and industrial beginnings
1848–1860Sectional crisis
1861–1865Civil War
1866–1877Reconstruction
1878–1899Gilded Age / industrial expansion
1900–1918Progressive and World War I era
1919–1929Interwar / Jazz Age
1930–1941Depression and New Deal
1942–1945World War II
1946–1959Early Cold War
1960–1969Civil rights / Vietnam-era change
1970–1979Post-Watergate / energy crisis
1980–1989Late Cold War
1990–2000Post-Cold War / digital transition
2001–2008Post-9/11 era
2009–2019Smartphone / social era
2020–presentCurrent historical record