How this is made

AI agents read the sources and draft each part. A second AI agent, one that did not write the draft, checks every passage against its source. Alex Vita, the editor and the only person in the chain, reads every part last and answers corrections.

The notes say where each paragraph comes from, and each source is marked by its kind of evidence: a record from the time, someone who was there, his own account, or a later writer. Open questions are left open.

Where a part quotes him from a recording, the words are quoted only if several speech-recognition programs, each working on its own, heard the same words; where they did not agree, he is paraphrased and the note gives the time in the recording. Some quotes have a Hear him say it button that plays the recording in its owner’s player.

Every image is a real photograph or document, credited.

The parts go out by email once a week, the same part to everyone on the list. Anyone who joins later finds the earlier parts on the site.

The site is free.

Corrections and memories from readers are welcome: see Corrections.