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The facts about Historia in one place, with the logo and screenshots to download.

What it is

Historia is a free, nonprofit AI research tool for students. It finds real records in public archives, copies the exact words from the page, and refuses to write the paper. A programme of The Hack Foundation, a 501(c)(3), built by students.

What it will not do

Cannot invent a source · Cannot invent a quotation · Will not write your paper

Requests for an essay, an outline or a thesis are refused on the server before any model runs. No account is needed to search.

Who built it

Built by Bowe Lubin, a high school senior in Pasadena, California.

Coverage

Forbes contributor Dan Fitzpatrick wrote about Historia in September 2026. Read it on forbes.com

Use

Since late August 2026, searches have come in from 17 US states and Washington, DC. Counted from server logs by the network each search came from. It is not a count of people or of schools.

Fact sheet

• Price: Free
• Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese
• Account: None needed to search
• Organisation: A nonprofit programme of The Hack Foundation, a 501(c)(3).
• Archives searched: Library of Congress · Chronicling America · Smithsonian Institution · Digital Public Library of America · Internet Archive · OpenAlex · Semantic Scholar · Europe PMC · ERIC · National Archives Catalog (NARA) · The National Archives (UK) · Gallica · Wellcome Collection · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Art Institute of Chicago · Old Bailey Online · GovInfo · CourtListener · legislation.gov.uk · World Digital Library · DigitalNZ · Wikisource · Hansard · Deutsches Textarchiv. Each search uses the archives that fit its question.
• How quotations are checked: The AI marks a passage by its character position in the archive’s own text. The server copies the words from that text and checks them again before they are shown. The AI never types a quotation.

Press contact

Write to thehistoria.company@gmail.com. A person replies.