Tactile History

Features

Everything Tactile History delivers in the classroom, in one place.

A worked example: the Louisiana Purchase

The four screens below are what a student and teacher actually see when they explore the 1803 Louisiana Purchase — from the touch on the map to the primary sources behind every claim.

1  •  TOUCH

Tactile map interaction

Pinch, pan, and circle on a 4K classroom panel. Here a student traces the boundary of the Louisiana Territory — Mississippi River on the east, Rocky Mountains on the west, Gulf to 49th parallel — and taps Early 19th century as the period.

Switch between live Google Maps and curated historical basemaps without leaving the lesson.

T Tactile History Period: Early 19th century (1800–1830) SELECTED REGION Louisiana Territory (1803) ~828,000 sq mi • Mississippi R. → Rocky Mtns Generate lesson
← The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Save lesson Generate quiz → FACTS AT A GLANCE Signed: April 30, 1803, Paris Price: $15,000,000 (~4¢/acre) Area: ~828,000 sq mi (2.14M km²) Effect: doubled U.S. territory Later became: 15 states in whole or part The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Generated lesson • 4 min read • Grade 8–10 • Early 19th century In April 1803, envoys Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe signed a treaty in Paris that transferred roughly 828,000 square miles of North America from Napoleonic France to the United States for $15 million — about four cents per acre. Overnight, the young republic doubled in size. Why Jefferson bought it President Thomas Jefferson had sent Monroe to Paris hoping to buy only the port of New Orleans — Mississippi River access was vital to American farmers. Napoleon, needing cash for war with Britain, offered the entire territory instead. What came next A year later, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis to map it. SOURCES National Archives Library of Congress David Rumsey Monticello

2  •  LEARN

Vision-grounded lessons

A multimodal Claude model sees the exact map snapshot the class sees and writes a lesson keyed to that region and period. In this case: the treaty signed by Livingston and Monroe in Paris on April 30, 1803, for $15 million.

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3  •  CHECK

Instant five-question quizzes

Generate multiple-choice questions from any lesson with one tap. Students tap to answer; the app shows the right answer with a short “why” citation drawn from the lesson text.

Great for whole-class check-ins or exit tickets at the end of a period.

Quiz question three of five: how much did the U.S. pay for Louisiana? $15 million highlighted correct.
Archive browser results for Louisiana Purchase 1803: Delisle 1718 map, de Fer 1718 map, 1803 treaty at National Archives, Lewis and Clark 1814 map, Jefferson letter, Barbe-Marbois portrait

4  •  VERIFY

Real archives, one tap away

Every cited source is one tap away: Delisle’s 1718 Carte de la Louisiane, the 1803 treaty from the National Archives, Lewis and Clark’s 1814 expedition map, and Jefferson’s letter warning that “the day France takes possession of N.O.…” — all zoomable at archival resolution.

Students verify claims for themselves — the hallmark of source-based history instruction.

District-grade license management

Issue, release, revoke, and extend licenses from a single dashboard. Bulk-issue any number of licenses for any duration; release a license to move a panel to a new room in one click.

See active panels, MRR, and weekly LLM spend at a glance.

Admin dashboard with active panel stats, MRR, license table, and bulk issuance form

Selectable time periods

Pick from canonical periods or specify a custom range. The model is prompted to stay inside that window.

No student PII

The app stores device IDs and usage counters only — no names, no photos of children, no audio.

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