Every city gets its record: the spine of events, the claims ledger, the government and the business, the people who held it, each claim graded against its sources. The record grows city by city.
One city published. The shelf fills as the sources hold up.
The Spine, 1690s to today: how the government started and who held it, the arc of the working city, the people of the record, and a claims ledger where every entry carries its grade.
Read the record →The record grows one city at a time. A city joins this shelf when its sources are deep enough to grade, not before.
Every claim in a city record carries a grade: proven by primary sources, documented in the secondary record, unproven, misstated, or fabricated, with contested claims marked as contested. Where the record is silent, the page says so. No verdict is ever stronger than the paper under it.