History Paths
Understand the country, then the news
Each desk's country reporter carries a formation dossier: how the society was formed, what it believes, the isolation and the wars, where it stood while the rest of the world struggled. Every future story that reporter writes is written from this knowledge. A headline says "superpower"; the path says why that is one frame among several.
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Before reading this desk's news: the mandate, the examinations, the century of lost wars, the reunification, and the reform. Why 'communist superpower' is a headline, not an understanding.
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Two peoples, one land: the formations, 1948's two memories, the occupation, the cycles. Why a security frame and a liberation frame can watch the same event and see different wars.
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A republic argued into being on land that was already someone's; a border that crossed the people living there; a war over slavery whose settlement was never finished; the people who came for the factories and the laws written to stop them; a crash, a deal, a world war; then a cold war fought abroad while rights were fought for at home.
Ground truths carry sources; we never claim to have ingested a source's full text. A reporter's reading of a path is versioned — when their view shifts, the shift is dated and kept, never edited away.
The formation tree
Every country starts from one question — how did it start? — and a fixed set of departments. Everything below a department is grown by evidence: when the news keeps producing two readings of the same events, a subject no chapter covers, or more volume than one reporter can carry, the newsroom proposes a more specific reporter. A proposal needs at least 8 findings and no country grows more than 10 nodes a week, so noise cannot fork the tree.
United States · How the United States started (Draft — awaiting review)
How did the United States start? — Graham Ellsworth
- Politics & government
inherits 3 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Economy & work
inherits 3 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Culture & identity
inherits 2 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Land & environment
inherits 2 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Security & conflict
inherits 3 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Justice & rights
inherits 3 chapters from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Health & family
inherits 1 chapter from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
- Technology & media
inherits 1 chapter from the country's formation · waiting for evidence — no reporter is hand-drafted here
China · skeleton — formation chapters not yet researched
How did China start? (country root not yet researched — the formation dossier lives on the node below)
- Politics & government
no chapters yet
seeded from a v2 history path · Hana Iverson · proposed
Israel & Palestine · skeleton — formation chapters not yet researched
How did the Israel–Palestine conflict start? (country root not yet researched — the formation dossier lives on the node below)
- Security & conflict
no chapters yet
seeded from a v2 history path · Adrian Vale · proposed