History Ink / HistoryLink.org

HistoryLink.org is the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. It is an evolving online encyclopedia of state and local history in Washington state. HistoryLink.org provides a free, authoritative, and easily accessible history reference for the benefit of students, teachers, journalists, scholars, researchers, and the general public. With a few noted exceptions, all essays and features on this site are original works prepared exclusively for HistoryLink.org by staff, contract writers, volunteers, and consulting experts. The encyclopedia contains more than 5,200 essays and is constantly expanding, with new essays added every week. The site debuted with demonstration content on May 1, 1998, and its original Seattle-King County database became functional on January 15, 1999. HistoryLink launched a parallel Washington database with initial content on March 2, 2003, making it the nations first original online encyclopedia of state his...