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The history that never gets an episode

Most of history never makes it to your feed. A podcast or a channel can only make so many episodes a year, and each one has to find an audience, so they keep going back to the same ground: Rome, the Tudors, the Second World War. Cartalore covers those as well, but the library was built to be wide rather than popular. It runs from the first cities of Mesopotamia through to the siege of Sarajevo, and every region of the world is in there. Much of it covers subjects most readers will never have come across, and it keeps growing.

• Hatshepsut, the woman who ruled Egypt as king c. 1479–1458 BCE
• Pompeii, the day Vesuvius buried a Roman city 79 CE
• Angkor, a medieval city the size of Los Angeles 802–1431
• Polynesian voyagers find Hawaii and New Zealand by the stars c. 1000–1300
• Cahokia, the city on the Mississippi before Columbus c. 1050–1350
• How the Mongols rode from the steppe to the Danube 1206–1241
• Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and the gold that upended Cairo 1324–1325
• Zheng He's treasure fleets, a lifetime before Columbus 1405–1433
• Cortés, Moctezuma and the woman who spoke for both 1519–1521
• Gettysburg, the three days that turned the Civil War 1863
• Ellis Island and its twelve million arrivals 1892–1954
• Gandhi walks 240 miles to the sea to make salt 1930
• The Dust Bowl exodus along Route 66 1930–1940
• Montgomery, the bus boycott that lasted 381 days 1955–1956

Read any of them wherever you are, or listen on the walk or the commute. If the library does not have what you are after, create your own storylines on whatever you want to know more about, and never stop learning.

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