About History Atlas

History Atlas is an independent daily geography game about United States history and historic places.

What you can play

Each daily challenge contains five clues shared by all players. Guess a location on the map, lock it in, and compare it with the historical site. Each round offers up to 1,000 points, for a total of 5,000. A new challenge starts at 6:00 AM Central, adjusting for daylight saving time.

The current bank contains 20 reviewed questions arranged across a four-day cycle. Questions include historical events and preserved places; they are not all distinct events. The bank repeats after its cycle. Completing all five rounds counts toward a streak regardless of score.

Sources and limitations

Questions draw primarily on National Park Service historical and place records, with other institutional sources linked on individual answers. The active bank has been reduced to 20 questions whose clues and explanations have been reviewed for neutral educational wording. The larger, programmatically assembled bank is not served by the game. This wording review is not independent verification by a historian. A brief clue may omit important context, and a source's choice of language or emphasis may deserve further investigation.

Answers retain links to their source so readers can evaluate the information. Representative map coordinates and a 25-mile full-credit radius are intended for a geography game, not navigation or precise site surveying. History Atlas is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service or its map providers.

Historical context and editorial approach

The game discusses difficult subjects, including slavery, racism, forced removal, conflict, and political violence, for educational purposes. It does not advocate discrimination, harassment, or violence against any person or group. Historical descriptions should distinguish what happened from approval of those actions. We favor neutral descriptions and explanatory context over sensational wording.

Corrections to wording should preserve the event and source while improving clarity. Historical organization names may be retained when needed to identify a subject; outdated descriptions of people should be explained or paraphrased rather than presented as the site's own language.

Your progress

An anonymous browser cookie connects you to saved results. Use the same address and browser to keep your streak. Clearing cookies, using private browsing, or changing browsers can disconnect you from that record. Public score links share the result, not access to the player's saved account.

Read our privacy notice and guide to reading history through geography.