One page for every moment worth looking back at.

Recap.at is a free archive of events that shaped the world - elections, wars, launches, festivals, disasters, breakthroughs. Each page pulls together what happened, when, and why it still matters, so you don't have to stitch the story together yourself.

Made for reading, not skimming

A search engine throws ten tabs at you. Wikipedia gives you the entry. Newspapers from the time sit behind paywalls. Old web pages disappear. Recaps brings the threads back into one place: a clear lede, a timeline, the numbers that matter, what people said as it happened, what came after, and what's still echoing today.

We write nothing from thin air. Every claim comes from public sources you can click through - encyclopedic references, archived news, public records, and the contemporaneous reactions of the people who lived through it. Where the historical record disagrees, we say so.

What makes a recap worth reading

• ·A two-sentence lede that answers what, when, and why - before any scrolling.
• ·A timeline built from primary records, in the order events actually happened.
• ·Voices from the time - what newspapers said, what people posted, what protest signs read.
• ·Then vs. now - the numbers, places, and people that changed because of this.
• ·Sources you can verify - every figure links back to where it came from.

How we keep it honest

Each page is checked structurally (do the dates line up? do the numbers match the sources? are the images of the right event?) and reviewed by editors before it ships. When new information surfaces, we update the page and note what changed.

Where we use someone else's words or pictures, we link to the original. We don't repackage paywalled writing. We don't display social posts without attribution for verified accounts. Personal data stays minimal.

Built in public

Recap.at's corpus is being built openly - the archive grows in front of you, new sections light up as we connect more sources. If you spot something off on a page (a wrong date, a missing voice, an image that doesn't match), tell us and we'll fix it. What's public is the content + the API; the platform that curates and ships it is our own.

Building on top of Recap? The corpus ships as a public REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) and an MCP server at /api/mcp for LLM agents - same key works for both. Every recap also resolves in structured form (markdown, YAML, JSON-LD) with RSS feeds, sitemap, schema.org graph, and an embed widget; see the integration docs. Tiers + per-call cost at /pricing.