History Slides
A curated collection of interactive HTML presentation decks, slide outlines, and topics covering History.
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20th-Century Revolutions
01 / 17 History · Deck 10 · Pop-Art Comic 20th-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS! 1917 · 1949 · 1959 · 1968 · 1979 · 1989 — six decades of crowds in the streets, governments overthrown, and assumptions shattered. A century told through its hinges.
Advertising History
Paid, identified communication intended to inform, persuade, or remind audiences about products, services, ideas, or organisations.
African Empires
MALI SONGHAI AKSUM G. ZIMBABWE KONGO 01 / 14 History · Deck 08 · Risograph African Empires Mali · Songhai · Kongo · Great Zimbabwe · Aksum — large, literate, wealthy, confidently negotiated. The story your high school skipped.
The Age of Exploration
A century and a half during which European sails — and almost no one else's at this scale — joined the hemispheres of the world.
Ancient Civilizations
Mesopotamia · Egypt · Indus · Greece · Rome
Ancient Rome
From Seven Hills to the Mediterranean World -- 753 BCE to 476 CE
Asian Dynasties
History · Deck 07 Asian Dynasties A long quiet across long centuries. Tang, Song, Ming, Qing, Tokugawa, Joseon — empires that ruled, often, more populations than all of Europe combined, and that wrote some of the most beautiful sentences in any language.
History of Cinema
A Visual Journey Through
History of Money
From cowrie shells to cryptocurrency: a 10,000-year journey through the invention, evolution, and future of the medium that makes civilisation possible.
Cold War Spies
Two superpowers, no direct combat, forty-six years of espionage at unprecedented scale. The Cold War was many things; it was also the golden age of intelligence agencies — the period when "spy" became a profession with civil-service grades.
The History of English
English is unusual. It is the only major European language with no gender, almost no case, and a vocabulary borrowed from a half-dozen unrelated sources. Its spelling is famously irregular. Its speakers, two-thirds of them now, learned it as a second language.
The Cold War
01 / 19 ★ History · Deck 04 The Cold War 1945 · 1991 · A FORTY-SIX-YEAR STAND-OFF
Decolonization Movements — The End of Empire and the Birth of Nations
At the end of World War II, European powers ruled approximately 750 million people in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific—over one-third of humanity.
History of the Internet
How a Cold War military communications experiment became the largest network humanity has ever built — reshaping commerce, culture, politics, and cognition along the way.
Medical History
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." — attributed to Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 — c. 370 BCE).
The French Revolution — The Deck Catalog
The Revolution did not invent democracy or human rights — it inherited them from the Enlightenment and the Americans. What it invented was the modern political. The deliberate remaking of state, society, calendar, religion, and citizenship from a single legislative body, against the resistance of the established order and at the cost of perhaps 40,000 lives in the Terror.
Greek Civilization
In a strip of broken coastline and stony islands, between roughly 800 and 300 BCE, a constellation of small cities produced the philosophical, political, and aesthetic categories that the rest of the West has been arguing about ever since.
History of Medicine — From Ancient Healers to Genomic Revolution
Long before writing, humans practiced medicine. The archaeological evidence is astonishing in both its antiquity and sophistication.
A History of Mathematics
A condensed history of the longest-running argument in human thought.
BRAND / How meaning gets attached to things
/ How meaning gets attached to things /
History of Slavery
The Institution That Shaped Civilizations and Sparked Revolutions
Industrial Britain
Between roughly 1760 and 1840, on a small wet island off the northwest coast of Europe, human beings broke through a ceiling on productivity that had constrained every previous society in history.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION // DECK 03
[ STEAM_/_STEEL_/_SMOKE ] 1760 — 1900 // BRITAIN -> EUROPE -> WORLD
The Mongol Empire
In a single lifetime, a man born under the name Temüjin united the warring tribes of the steppe, conquered northern China, sacked the great cities of Central Asia, and outlived all his rivals. His grandsons completed the rest.
The Ottoman Empire
Six Centuries of Power: From Anatolian Frontier to Global Superpower (1299-1922)
The Persian Empire
Before Rome, before Han China, the Achaemenid Persians built the largest contiguous land empire the world had yet seen — and the most administratively sophisticated. From the Indus to the Aegean, twenty-three peoples paid tribute to a single Great King.
Pre-Columbian Americas
AZTEC MAYA INCA MISSISSIPPIAN CAHOKIA 01 / 16 History · Deck 09 · Bauhaus Pre— Columbian Americas Two continents. Tens of thousands of years. Maya, Inca, Aztec, Mississippian — civilisations that built cities, mapped stars, and farmed altitudes that no Old World agriculture had imagined.
The Renaissance
Liber Quintus · History · Deck V The Renaissance Florence · the Medici · Leonardo · the recovery of the human measure
The Roman Empire — The Deck Catalog
Rome is the empire against which every later European state has measured itself. Charlemagne crowned in 800. The Holy Roman Empire that lasted to 1806. The Tsars who took the title from Caesar. Napoleon's eagles. The eagles of the Wehrmacht. Mussolini's fascio . Each was an attempt to inherit something Rome had been.
The World Wars
From the Sarajevo pistol to the Hiroshima cloud — a single, broken arc.
The Silk Road — Ancient Arteries of Commerce
Ancient Arteries of Commerce, Culture, and Contagion
The Viking Age — Voyagers, Raiders, and Settlers
Voyagers, Raiders, Traders, and Settlers
World War I — The Great War
The Great War That Remade the World
REVOLUTIONS // The 20th Century
01 / 13 ← → / SPACE / CLICK A 13-PART AGITPROP DECK · 1900 — 2000 REVOLUTIONS The 20th Century RUSSIA · CHINA · CUBA · IRAN · THE COLONIES 02 PETROGRAD · 1917 1917 Russia — Two Revolutions in One Year From Autocracy to October The setting: Romanov dynasty, three centuries of tsarist autocracy, devastated by World War I — mass casualties, food...
Age of Exploration — Caravels and Conquest 1400–1600
N S W E Anno Domini MCDXCII · A Cartographer's Account AGE OF EXPLORATION Caravels & Conquest · 1400 — 1600 Drawn upon parchment · with rhumb & rose
Aegyptus — Three Thousand Years on the Nile
From the unification of the Two Lands to the death of Cleopatra — a civilization that watched empires rise and fall, and outlasted them all.
COLD WAR / 1945-1991
SUBJECT: ORIGIN 1945 FILE 002/13 // SECTION 02 — POSTWAR CONFIDENTIAL THE BREAK CODENAME // YALTA-POTSDAM May 1945 — the swastika falls in Berlin. By August, Tokyo Bay surrenders. The victors meet, smile for photographers, and divide the world.
Industrial Revolution — Steam, Steel, Smoke
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Medievalia / Europe 500-1500
Medievalia EUROPE · 500 – 1500
The Renaissance — An Illuminated Codex
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Roma — Imperium
ROMA Imperium ❖ S P Q R Senātus Populusque Rōmānus — The Senate and People of Rome A thousand years, in thirteen acts. 753 BC — 476 AD.
The Silk Road — Caravans across Eurasia
N The Silk Road Caravans across Eurasia ~ 200 BC · 1450 AD A history in thirteen panels I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West In 138 BC , Emperor Wu of the Han dispatched the diplomat Zhang Qian to find allies against the Xiongnu. He was captured for a decade, escaped, and returned with reports of vast civilizations beyond the Pamirs — Bactria, Parthia, Ferghana.
WORLD WAR II / 1939-1945 — Broadsheet Edition
Causes · Course · Consequences
COMPUTING / a brief history
Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, general-purpose computer with a "mill" (CPU), "store" (memory), and punched-card input — over a century before the electronic computer.
THE INTERNET // A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE INTERNET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY BOOTING ARCHIVE