Sources, evidence and AI

What you are reading

HistorIQly combines reference pages, essays, historical fiction, interactive tools and AI conversations. They serve different purposes. A character’s simulated answer is not a quotation, eyewitness account or primary source. First-person storytelling can help you explore a period, but it does not establish what a historical person actually said or thought.

Use the sources beside the claim

Figure pages list primary works and further reading. The expanded guides link their factual explanations to specific references. A primary source is evidence from the period; a later biography or scholarly reference interprets that evidence. Both require context. Where a source is translated, disputed or written much later than the events, that distinction matters.

A reading list is a starting point, not a claim that every sentence has been independently verified. Follow a citation and compare the account with other scholarship before using it in assessed work.

AI assistance and review

The expanded guides identify AI assistance on the page. They do not claim independent historian review. A review credit should appear only when a named reviewer has actually reviewed that material. AI can make factual mistakes, merge accounts or generate plausible quotations; check claims and quotations against the linked sources.

Dates describe real revisions

Where an expanded guide shows an update date, it records a substantive change to that guide. It is not the date of the historical event or a promise that every linked source was updated on the same day.

Help correct the record

If something appears wrong, use the contact information on our About page. Include the page address, the claim you are questioning, and a reliable reference supporting the correction.