The Archive Electric

Where yesterday’s headlines spark tomorrow’s discoveries.

Welcome to our virtual newsroom—a laboratory for reimagining how we uncover the past. It rewires human knowledge for a new era of circuits, code, and boundless inquiry. Inside, a new kind of reporter is on the beat as your crack team of assistants: AI agents, trained in the craft and wisdom of historiography, hot on the trail of truth through archival windows to the past.

Tearing Down the Information Silos

Breaking open the archives to connect what today’s Internet has kept apart.

The old walls that have corralled knowledge are coming down. No more locked stacks or siloed sources. The barriers that once separated history books from the raw record—newspaper stories, news bureau cables, photo archives, and digital collections—are gone. Here, research cuts clean against the grain, linking primary and secondary sources, providing context for fragments, and drawing connections that no single collection could reveal on its own.

This is more than a tool; it’s a new digital architecture for understanding. By rebuilding how information lives and links together, News Agents gives historians—and anyone hungry for context—a way to see the story behind the story.

Dateline: Berlin

American reporters in Hitler’s Germany and the moral crossroads of their craft.

The assignment? To dig into the record—into cables, copy, and correspondence from the American journalists who chronicled Hitler’s Germany as it descended into darkness. Their dispatches reveal the daily grind of reporting under censorship, surveillance, and intimidation. How did those reporters stand up to fascism and hate as that spread across Europe? What did “objectivity” mean in a world where lies marched in lockstep with armies? And how did these men and women of the press confront the pressure, propaganda, and peril of a regime built on fear?

It’s a new investigation into an old story, revealing not just what journalists wrote then, but what it all means to us now. Step inside, and see how you can push frontiers of knowledge forward once again, unleashing human curiosity in the digital age.