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World News Pulse Launched — Live World News Map Powered by GDELT 🔗

Explore what’s happening right now across the globe with a real-time news map, fast search, and one-click access to original sources—updated in a rolling 15-minute window.

We’ve launched a new page: World News Pulse — a live, real-time view of world news powered by GDELT.

World News Pulse helps you quickly grasp the global “now”:

  • Live map: see where stories are breaking worldwide at a glance
  • Instant filtering: search headlines (e.g., “election”, “earthquake”, “summit”) and filter by themes (e.g., “SECURITY”, “ECON”, “HEALTH”)
  • One-click sources: open the original news articles immediately
  • Tone & intensity: map dots reflect sentiment and its strength for rapid situational awareness
  • Rolling freshness: data is loaded as a snapshot in a 15-minute window (and can be refreshed)

If you want a fast, map-first way to follow global developments and jump to primary sources, World News Pulse is built for that.

Human Histories Is Now Listed on Benevity 🔗

Employees at Benevity partner companies can now support Human Histories through workplace giving and matching programs.

Human Histories has been added as an eligible nonprofit on Benevity, a global corporate giving platform used by companies worldwide.

Human Histories is a nonprofit organization focused on building shared understanding by making human history visible and comparable across perspectives. Through our data-driven application Histoverse, we organize historical events—such as wars, political transitions, and social change—within a unified framework of time, location, and cause-and-effect.

We believe that many conflicts arise not only from differences in values, but from the absence of a shared view of facts and context. By enabling people to examine the same historical information together, we aim to support constructive dialogue and cooperation.

Support through Benevity helps sustain the long-term operation of Histoverse, including data maintenance, multilingual expansion, and continued development as a public-interest historical analysis environment.

RSS Feed Added to the Website 🔗

Language-specific RSS feeds are now available on the Human Histories website.

RSS allows you to automatically receive the latest news and updates via your preferred RSS reader.

Human Histories provides language-specific RSS feeds. Please subscribe to the RSS feed corresponding to the language version you use.

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We will also share release and update information for Histoverse through RSS.

Visualizing Human History to Contribute to a Peaceful Future

Human Histories is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to education and public knowledge, supported in part by donations.

Human Histories, a certified non-profit organization, is dedicated to making the vast and complex history of humankind accessible and understandable across languages.
Wars and disasters, inventions and exchanges, the evolution of ideas and cultures—human history is immense. Our mission is to organize these events along the axes of time, place, and causality, enabling everyone to learn intuitively, reflect critically, and take meaningful action.

Our Mission and Vision

This vision is increasingly recognized as important in education, research, and civic engagement.

What is the Histoverse Project?

At the core of Human Histories’ work lies the Histoverse Project.
Histoverse combines open data with state-of-the-art visualization technology, mapping millions of historical events on a timeline, across world maps, and through causal networks.

👉 Learn more on Histoverse.

From Past to Present: World News Pulse

To complement historical understanding with real-time awareness, Human Histories also provides World News Pulse — a live, map-based view of current global news powered by GDELT.

World News Pulse allows users to:

👉 Explore the present on World News Pulse.

Educational and Social Impact

Histoverse is more than a database; it is a shared window for learning and dialogue.

Support and Donations

To sustain and grow this initiative, we rely on the generous support of individuals and organizations.
Donations are directed toward translation, server maintenance, educational content creation, and public workshops.
👉 Details on how to support us can be found on Donate.

Join Us in Building the Future

Understanding history is the first step toward avoiding the repetition of past mistakes.
Through the work of Human Histories, we strive to hand over a more peaceful and sustainable world to the next generation.
👉 See About Us for our philosophy and activities.
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