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History

Your child's own
History tutor

Pioneered by Stanford AI researchers and learning scientists, Aristotle is the world's first voice-based AI tutor. A full History course, mapped skill by skill.

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Fits your child's History class

Mapped skill by skill

Every skill mapped

History on Aristotle is 47 skills across 9 units, each linked to the skills it builds on.

Your class or your curiosity

Share a syllabus, textbook, or reading list and sessions follow it, or let Aristotle lead the way through the course.

Your child's pace

Aristotle moves on when a skill is mastered and slows down when it isn't, so no time goes to what your child already knows.

Features

All the tools of a great tutor.

Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.

Learn out loud

Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.

An interactive whiteboard

Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.

Practice built for you

Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.

65 subjects and counting

From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.

Review with ease

Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.

Upload your own materials

Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!

Personalized tracking

We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.

A tutor that knows you

Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.

The curriculum

47 History skills, personalized to your child

Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.

Sample curriculum

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How Do We Know What Happened?

Who Had a Voice in the Ancient World?

Whose Account of an Encounter?

Why Do Revolutions Happen?

Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship

How Did Industrialization Change Daily Life?

War, Propaganda, and the Historical Record

Independence and Contested Memory

Doing Your Own Historical Investigation

History tutoring curriculum47 skills across 9 units

How Do We Know What Happened?

Start with surviving traces and learn what kinds of claims they can support. Topics: A City Seen Through Its Remains, Putting Evidence in Time.

Who Had a Voice in the Ancient World?

Use Athens and Rome to investigate citizenship, public persuasion, and excluded perspectives. Topics: Athens: Democracy and Its Limits, Rome: Republic, Empire, and Public Image.

Whose Account of an Encounter?

Compare accounts across differences in power, language, and purpose. Topics: Travelers: Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo, The Conquest of Mexico, Trade Seen From Different Shores.

Why Do Revolutions Happen?

Investigate causes, ideals, and outcomes through the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. Topics: From Grievances to Revolution, Rights Claimed and Rights Withheld.

Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship

Examine freedom as something fought for, defined, and contested after legal change. Topics: Reading Lives Under Slavery, The American Civil War and Reconstruction.

How Did Industrialization Change Daily Life?

Use work, households, and cities to investigate change at more than one scale. Topics: The Factory and the Household, Did Life Get Better?.

War, Propaganda, and the Historical Record

Investigate responsibility and civilian experience while distinguishing evidence from claims about it. Topics: Explaining War and Reading Mobilization, Documenting Atrocity.

Independence and Contested Memory

Follow decolonization, competing national stories, and the afterlives of historical events. Topics: India, Ghana, and Paths to Independence, Monuments, Museums, and Oral History.

Doing Your Own Historical Investigation

Build a small argument whose claims are proportionate to its sources. Topics: Question, Sources, and Argument.

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Common questions about online History tutoring

A few things you might wonder before getting started.

What does Aristotle's History course cover?

Aristotle's History course tracks 47 skills across 9 units, including How Do We Know What Happened?, Who Had a Voice in the Ancient World?, and Whose Account of an Encounter?. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of History your child has mastered and what to teach next.

Who is Aristotle's History course for?

What does a History tutoring session look like?

Does Aristotle follow my child's History class?

Can Aristotle help if my child is struggling with History?

How much does History tutoring with Aristotle cost?

How is Aristotle different from ChatGPT for History help?

Can parents see how the tutoring is going?

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