Backdate

In a textbook the French Revolution is a list of dates and names, but to the people living it, it was a flood of breaking news every single day. Backdate rebuilds historical events as if they were a daily news app. The fall of the Bastille pops up as a breaking alert, figures of the era react in short posts, and the situation spreads across a live map in real time. Instead of reading history knowing the outcome, you follow it on edge about what happens next, which makes it stick far longer.