Harriet Tubman
1912 - Auburn, New York
At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
Open this life
By time
Choose a stretch of time, meet the people gathered there, and move outward through the places that held them.
Current period
1912 to 1912 with 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton in view: 2 lives, 2 place stories, and 1 named historical windows to move through.
Place in focus: 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton
Lives in this period
These are the clearest lives to open first when you want a person, not a date label, to lead you into the period.
1912 - Auburn, New York
At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
Open this life
1912 - Dayton, Ohio
With his lungs burning in Dayton, knowing he will not survive the year, the man who achieved powered flight sets down what the history books will get wrong.
Open this life
Places inside this time
In 1912 to 1912, use the same years to move from chronology into cities, courts, islands, and regions that already carry deeper context.
Alive in this timeline around 1912 / story span 1870s-1912
Connected to 1 life including Wilbur Wright.
Enter this place
Alive in this timeline around 1912 / story span 1912
Connected to 1 life including Harriet Tubman.
Enter this place
Named windows
1 windows to step into
Modern
1825 to 1914
Reform, invention, nationalism, and new public expectations of leadership.
31 lives visible here
21 place stories active in the same years
Enter this periodTime travel
7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton · 1912 CE to 1912 CE
This view does not show the active place. It is kept so you can return to it.
Time controls
Change the span without losing your route back into the lives and places already visible in this period.
Focused place from the globe: 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton
2 place stories are visible in this time window.
Historical events
1 prototype event
North America
1912 · 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton
Dayton turns modern invention inward as one half of a fraternal engineering world disappears too soon.
Wilbur and Orville keep the event human because modern flight is brought back to one room, one family, and one broken collaboration.
Chronology
Move year by year, compare one life with the next, and open a person directly when the route becomes clear.
1912 - Auburn, New York
Place story available
At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
1912 to 1912 across the atlas
1912 - Auburn, New York
1912 - Dayton, Ohio
Decades
1912 - Dayton, Ohio
Place story available
With his lungs burning in Dayton, knowing he will not survive the year, the man who achieved powered flight sets down what the history books will get wrong.