History

A History of Europe

From prehistory to the present — how Europe was made, imagined, and contested, told through the lens of modern historiography.

8 modules

How Historians Read Europe

The tools, assumptions, and blind spots behind the story of European history

Before Europe: Origins

From the first hominins to the Neolithic transformation — three million years of arrivals, adaptations, and the layered ancestry that made Europeans

Ancient Worlds, Connected

Greece and Rome in a Mediterranean that stretched from Scotland to the Sahara

Forging a New World: Europe After Rome

Kingdoms, Christendom, and the Making of Medieval Europe

The Renaissance, Humanism, and New Worlds

How a story about rebirth was invented — and what it hid

Modernity, Nation, and Empire

How nationalism was invented, why empires and Enlightenment went hand in hand, and what historians still argue about

The Other Europes

Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the North in the mirror of Western historiography

The Unfinished Past

Memory, Identity, and the European Project Today

How this plan was made

Each plan on learnings is built by a hand-crafted agentic pipeline: research agents gather primary sources, a claim reviewer verifies facts against them, and a sequencer orders modules for how people actually learn. The curation — topic selection, framing, editorial standards — is Nicolas's. The research and writing is AI-assembled.