History Adventures · World of Characters
Bringing the pages
of history to life.
A fully interactive, cross-platform digital learning series that combines mobile entertainment technology with the power of narrative design.
Discover the lives of people across the globe, confront the choices they faced, and ask: What would I have done?
Explore a world of characters
What would I have done?
History Adventures pulls the learner into the emotional stakes of people’s lives. Explore a chapter, make a choice, and discover the history behind it.
Cinematic history
Al-Khwarizmi Docudrama
A cinematic journey into ninth-century Baghdad and the ideas that gave algebra and the algorithm their names.
1450-1750
Empires & Interconnections
During an era of colossal change, the world got smaller. Explore the lives of six men and women caught in its extraordinary transformations.
1750-1900
Revolutions & Industrialization
Five lives across a changing world. Decide whether the technological and economic advances of the age were worth their human cost.
Educators
Digital learning for
a digital generation.
Bring history into your classroom through character investigations, primary sources, contrasting perspectives and historically plausible alternate endings.
Designed to ignite curiosity
The goal is to ignite a lifelong fascination for learning about history. Empires & Interconnections and Revolutions & Industrialization connect character stories with AP World History: Modern themes.
Start with the classroom activities developed in our original teacher guides, now gathered into a practical downloadable resource.
Creator, producer & design director
Spencer Striker, PhD
Professor of Digital Media Design at Northwestern University in Qatar. Founder and creator of History Adventures.
“From the gardens of Babylon to the stockyards of Chicago, students can explore five millennia of amazing interactive content with ever more to come.”
From the blog
Ignite curiosity.
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