About

The narrative traverses the globe from east to west, its path a double parabola along the equator, crossing the equator three times in any given time period. The narrative encompasses the twelve faces of the globe: the "worlds".

The twenty-eight regions largely follow the United Nations geoscheme. The sixty subregions are the product of world + region.

History begins in 2637 BCE, the traditional starting epoch of the oldest calendar in continuous use. The maps span consecutive time periods, which telescope in multiples of 12 from months to years to eras to ages to epochs and beyond.

Photo credit: Dion Ogust (2016)

Jeff Moran initially published the History Atlas in 2001 as a Web browser application. Known for his periodic spiral of the chemical elements, Moran has had careers in software design, architectural sculpture, television production, mechanical contracting, and jewelry design. He is a former Town Supervisor of Woodstock, New York.

Each entry has sidebar links to context (people, places, things, and so on) and to period-specific maps of regions and subregions. Modified satellite photographs from Apple's Maps application serve as background.

Primary textual sources are noted inline (when quotes are used) or under Sources.

Secondary sources include the Library of Congress Country Studies published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress. Sections of this copyright-free series, always sourced to the individual study, form the spine of the age-by-age narrative.

Other secondary sources include the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, the 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia and the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.

Images are credited to their creators; many can be found in their largest format at Wikipedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Editing of source materials includes conversion to the pluperfect verb form and the active voice, shifting subordinate clauses from the initial ten words of entries, changing spellings of proper nouns to contemporary formats, expressing quantities in words, and removing subheadings where appropriate.