Time Surfing: A Graphic History Series
Time Surfing
Can we experience the past? Like time travel — to see history? I think we can. And the guide below lets you witness the most pivotal days in U.S. and World history firsthand with detailed graphics throughout. I call it “Time Surfing”.
Pick a day in history from the list below, below. Everything from natural disasters to America’s founding. Don’t see one you want? Throw suggestions in the comments (items below include your brilliant ideas).
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Daily Episode Guide
04/15/0044 - A Day That Ended the Roman Republic, 44 B.C.
06/15/0075 - A Day in the Life of a Pompeian Slave, 75 CE
08/24/0079 - A Day when Mount Vesuvius Erupted, 79 A.D.
10/14/1066 - A Day at the Battle of Hastings, 1066
08/22/1280 - A Day with a Medieval Peasant Family in England, 1280
10/04/1347 - A Day When the Black Plague Arrived, 1347
05/30/1431 - A Day Joan of Arc Burned, 1431
10/12/1492 - A Day When Columbus Discovered America, 1492
03/05/1500 - A Day to Feed the Sun: An Aztec Sacrifice, 1500
11/18/1519 - A Day Cortez Met Moctezuma, 1519
05/19/1536 - A Day When Anne Boleyn Was Executed, 1536
08/23/1589 - A Day with The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 1589
03/22/1622 - A Day at the Powhatan Indian Uprising, 1622
A Day at the Powhatan Indian Uprising, 1622
The Time Travel Series: including free and premium posts.
09/12/1683 - A Day at the Gates of Vienna, 1683
06/07/1692 - A Day the Wickedest City on Earth Sank Into the Sea, 1692
06/30/1699 - A Day With Captain Kidd’s Treasure, 1699
04/13/1750 - A Day Discovering the Cumberland Gap, 1750
06/10/1752 - A Day When Ben Franklin’s Key Unlocked Electricity, 1752
07/03/1754 - A Day That Started a World War: George Washington at Fort Necessity
07/09/1755 - A Day Providence Saved George Washington’s Life, 1755
06/20/1756 - A Day in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756
04/05/1758 - A Day Mary Jemison Was Captured by the Shawnee, 1758
07/15/1760 - A Day Crossing the Atlantic to America, 1760
12/22/1769 - A Day That Changed America: Daniel Boone and the Shawnee, 1769
03/05/1770 - A Day with Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre, 1770
12/16/1773 - A Day at the Boston Tea Party, 1773
04/18/1775 - A Day When Paul Revere Rode to Lexington, 1775
12/14/1775 - A Day in Boston, 1775
12/16/1775 - A Day in Philadelphia, 1775
01/06/1776 - A Day with the Continental Army’s Secret Weapon, 1776
A Day with the Continental Army's Secret Weapon, 1776
Nathaniel Holcomb, age 18, of Saybrook, Connecticut. Third son of a farmer, joined the Connecticut militia in spring 1776. Recruited by Sergeant Ezra Lee’s brother for the whaleboat crew supporting David Bushnell’s secret weapon. Slight build, 5’7”, sandy brown hair tied back, gap between front teeth, pockmark scar on left cheek from childhood smallpox. Calloused hands, sunburned nose perpetually peeling.
07/04/1776 - A Day the Thirteen Colonies Broke the King’s Chain, 1776
07/24/1776 - A Day with a Colonial Farmer’s Wife, 1776
12/25/1776 - A Day When Washington Crossed the Delaware, 1776
01/28/1778 - A Winter Day at Valley Forge, 1778
03/20/1778 - A Day In Paris Spying On Ben Franklin, 1778
06/16/1778 - A Day Daniel Boone Escaped the Shawnee, 1778
09/23/1779 - A Day of Impossible Victory with John Paul Jones, 1779
05/19/1780 - A Day the Sun Went Out Over New England, 1780
04/28/1789 - A Day of a Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, 1789
07/14/1789 - A Day at the Storming of the Bastille, 1789
07/17/1794 - A Day in the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
02/16/1804 - A Day the Barbary Pirates Met Stephen Decatur, 1804
07/11/1804 - A Day of the Duel That Changed America: Hamilton vs. Burr, 1804
09/25/1804 - A Day Lewis and Clark Confronted the Lakota Sioux, 1804
04/27/1805 - A Day Fighting on the Shores of Tripoli, 1805
08/17/1805 - A Day with Lewis, Clark and Sacajawea, 1805
11/18/1805 - A Day When Lewis and Clark Reached the Pacific, 1805
02/07/1812 - A Day When the Mississippi River Ran Backwards, 1812
08/24/1814 - A Day When the Enemy Burned the White House to the Ground, 1814
09/13/1814 - A Day with Francis Scott Key at the Battle of Fort McHenry, 1814
05/16/1828 - A Day with Young Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans, 1828
01/30/1835 - A Day at the The First Presidential Assassination Attempt, 1835
03/06/1836 - A Day at the Alamo with David Crockett, 1836
04/21/1836 - A Day When Sam Houston Broke an Empire, 1836
05/19/1836 - A Day of the Fort Parker Massacre and Cynthia Parker’s Abduction, 1836
A Day of the Fort Parker Massacre and Cynthia Ann Parker's Abduction, 1836
Time Travel Series - Daily Episode Guide: using AI to relive past events.
05/01/1848 - A Day on the Oregon Trail, 1848
07/15/1849 - A Day with a California Gold Prospector, 1849
08/28/1849 - A Day on the Underground Railroad, 1849
09/15/1849 - A Day Discovering the Palace of Nineveh, 1849
07/08/1853 - A Day the Black Ships Came to Japan, 1853
10/16/1859 - A Day of John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
04/12/1861 - A Day at Fort Sumter with Abner Doubleday, 1861
07/21/1861 - A Day with Stonewall Jackson, 1861
09/17/1862 - A Day with a Nurse in the Civil War, 1862
09/17/1862 - A Day with Clara Barton at Antietam, 1862
05/22/1863 - A Day with Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Vicksburg, 1863
07/03/1863 - A Day of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, 1863
A Day of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, 1863
The Time Travel Series - Daily Episode Guide: using AI to relive past events.
11/18/1863 - A Day with Lincoln at Gettysburg, 1863
02/09/1864 - A Day Escaping Libby Prison, 1864
08/19/1864 - A Day in Andersonville Prison, 1864
09/29/1864 - A Day with the 5th United States Colored Troops, 1864
04/14/1865 - A Day with John Wilkes Booth, 1865
12/18/1865 - A Day in Porkopolis (Cincinnati), 1865
08/13/1868 - A Day Trapped at Arica: The USS Wateree and the Tsunami, 1868
05/10/1869 - A Day of the Golden Spike: the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
A Day of the Golden Spike: the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
Time Travel Series - Daily Episode Guide: using AI to relive past events.
10/08/1871 - A Day of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
12/04/1872 - A Day Finding the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste, 1872
06/25/1876 - A Day When Custer Rode into the Trap, 1876
07/02/1881 - A Day at the Garfield Assassination, 1881
09/07/1881 - A Day with Jesse James on His Last Robbery, 1881
08/26/1883 - A Day the Sea Turned to Stone at Krakatoa, 1883
12/26/1885 - A Day of Fear - America’s First Serial Killer Panic, 1885
11/08/1895- A Day When Science Looked Through Flesh for the First Time, 1895
05/31/1889 - A Day of the Johnstown Flood, 1889
02/15/1898 - A Day When the USS Maine Exploded, 1898
07/01/1899 - A Day with Teddy Roosevelt at the Battle of San Juan Hill, 1899
04/15/1900 - A Day Finding the Shipwreck That Stunned the World, 1900
12/17/1903 - A Day Humanity Took Flight, 1903
04/18/1906 - A Day the Earth Swallowed San Francisco, 1906
04/12/1907 - A Day at Ellis Island, 1907
A Day at Ellis Island, 1907
The Time Travel Series - Daily Episode Guide: using AI to relive past events.
06/29/1908 - A Day the Sky Exploded Over Tunguska, 1908
04/15/1912 - A Day with Maggie Brown on the RMS Titanic, 1912
06/28/1914 - A Day When World War I Began, 1914
07/01/1916 - A Day in the Trenches at the Somme, 1916
07/29/1916 - A Day of the First Foreign Terror Attack on American Soil, 1916
10/12/1917 - A Day the Sun Fell From the Sky, 1917
12/06/1917 - A Day When the City of Halifax Exploded, 1917
10/08/1918 - A Day with Sergeant York in the Argonne Forest, 1918
01/15/1919 - A Day at the Great Molasses Flood of 1919
11/04/1922 - A Day discovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
11/26/1922 - A Day Opening King Tut’s Tomb, 1922
12/15/1925 - A Day in the Lower East Side, 1925
A Day in the Lower East Side — December 15, 1925
The Time Travel Series: including free and premium posts. Click to zoom.
10/24/1929 - A Day When Wall Street Fell Off the Earth, 1929
04/13/1933 - A Day with Bonnie and Clyde, 1933
12/17/1935 - A Day in Manhattan’s West Village During the Great Depression, 1935
05/06/1937 - A Day When the Hindenburg Fell Out of the Sky, 1937
09/07/1940 - A Day with Churchill during the London Blitz, 1940
12/07/1941 - A Day at Pearl Harbor with Cornelia Fort, 1941
12/07/1941- A Day at Pearl Harbor with Dorie Miller, 1941
03/11/1942 - A Day with MacArthur at Corregidor, 1942
08/01/1943 - A Day with JFK on PT-109, 1943
A Day with JFK on PT-109, 1943
The Time Travel Series attempts to recreate past events as realistically as possible - Daily Episode Guide.
06/06/1944 - A Day with Eisenhower on D-Day, June 6, 1944
06/06/1944 - A Day with Pvt. John Steele of the 82nd Airborne, June 6, 1944
12/19/1944 - A Day with Patton in the Battle of the Bulge, 1944
01/26/1945 - A Day with Audie Murphy at the Colmar Pocket, 1945
04/11/1945 - A Day Liberating the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1945
05/05/1945 - A Day on Okinawa with Desmond Doss, 1945
08/06/1945 - A Day Aboard the Enola Gay, 1945
08/06/1945 - A Day That Erased Hiroshima, 1945
03/15/1947 - A Day Finding the Oldest Bible on Earth, 1947
11/27/1950 - A Day at the Chosin Reservoir, 1950
11/22/1963 - A Day When They Killed JFK, 1963
05/02/1968 - A Day with MSG Roy Benavidez in Cambodia, 1968
07/20/1969 - A Day with Neil Armstrong on the Moon, 1969
01/27/1986 - A Day with Christa McAuliffe and the STS Challenger, 1986
01/03/2026 - A Day capturing Maduro, 2026
10/17/2034 - A Day on Moon Base Alpha, 2034
See below for Time Surfing Episodes.
The Grand Conspiracy against America, Part I:
The Illustrated Spygate Scandal
A dramatization of real events. This is Part I. The entire book is online - and available on Kindle and in paperback!
And Part II.
Time Surfing
Time Surfing: Boston
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Time-Surfing: Manhattan Island
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Time Surfing: San Francisco
Time Surfing is an experiment. Can we use the latest tools to see an area evolve from wilderness to the modern day? Appreciate comments and feedback.
Time Surfing Washington, D.C.
Time Surfing is an experiment. Can we use the latest tools to see an area evolve from wilderness to the modern day? I’d love your comments and feedback! Earn rewards by Sharing this Sub; see the Leaderboard above for details!
Time Surfing Chicago: One Drone, Two Centuries, One City Rising
You Are There… Graphic History Series.