Researcher Needed to Build Country History Research Briefs and Find Credentialed Historians

I am building a travel app that helps users understand the history, culture, context, and meaning of the countries, territories, cities, and landmarks they visit. I am looking for a strong researcher who can help create the research foundation for short mixed-media country history videos, quizzes, tidbits, mini-games, and deeper learning links. This role is not general travel writing. I need someone who can find reputable sources, identify historians or credentialed experts, organize country history clearly, and provide research that a scriptwriter, narrator, animator, and app team can use. **Main Goal:** For each country or territory, I want research organized into a consistent framework that explains the major historical arc of the place. The content should cover the big picture without pretending that every detail of history can fit into one short video. The videos will be sectioned off into short chapters. Users who want more detail will be able to open reputable articles, longer free videos, source notes, and multiple perspectives outside the main app experience. **Research Framework:** Please organize findings under these sections when relevant: 1. Before the Country Early peoples, geography, migrations, language families, old cultures, and the land before modern borders existed. 2. First Civilizations, Kingdoms, and Societies Early states, rulers, religions, trade networks, architecture, agriculture, social structures, and cultural foundations. 3. Empires, Golden Ages, and Cultural Power Major eras of influence, art, science, military power, religion, architecture, literature, trade, philosophy, inventions, or regional dominance. 4. Feuds, Invasions, and Power Shifts Internal rivalries, invasions, dynastic changes, regional wars, clan conflict, religious conflict, coups, and changing centers of power. 5. Foreign Influence, Colonialism, and Trade Outside powers, trade routes, conquest, exploitation, cultural exchange, resistance, missionary influence, forced labor, slavery, resource extraction, and imported systems of law or government. 6. Independence, Nation Formation, and Borders How the modern country formed, independence movements, revolutions, partition, constitutions, borders, national identity, flags, official languages, and founding figures. 7. Conflict, Harm, and Memory Wars, massacres, atrocities, civil conflict, oppression, displacement, genocide, occupation, trauma, contested memory, and how these events are remembered or debated. 8. Modern Identity and Global Role Economy, politics, culture, religion, unresolved tensions, diaspora, pop culture, tourism, environmental issues, and global influence. 9. What Travelers See Today How history appears in cities, food, buildings, religion, customs, languages, museums, monuments, festivals, neighborhoods, art, landmarks, and etiquette. 10. Myths, Legends, and National Stories Origin stories, folklore, religious traditions, legendary figures, national myths, and disputed narratives. These must be clearly labeled as legend, tradition, folklore, debated history, or documented history. **Responsibilities:** * Research countries and territories using reputable, verifiable sources * Find historians, professors, museum professionals, cultural researchers, local experts, or qualified guides who can review or support the information * Provide names, credentials, institutions, relevant work, and contact links when possible * Organize findings under the 10-section history framework * Cite sources for major claims * Identify where historians agree, disagree, or where a topic is politically sensitive * Separate documented facts from interpretations, legends, folklore, myths, and disputed claims * Recommend deeper reading links, reputable articles, museum pages, academic resources, archives, and longer free videos * Find multiple perspectives where appropriate, including local, minority, regional, academic, neighboring-country, colonial, or postcolonial perspectives * Flag sensitive topics that need extra care * Suggest visuals, maps, artifacts, landmarks, and historical locations that could be used in animation or app learning cards * Create research briefs that are clear enough for a scriptwriter and animator to use **Preferred Source Types:** * Academic books and articles * University pages * Museum and heritage institution pages * UNESCO or official heritage sources * Government archives when appropriate * Local cultural institutions * Qualified historians or scholars * Reputable documentaries and lectures * Primary sources when available * Scholarly or reputable websites **Important Accuracy Note:** The goal is not to force one “perfectly unbiased” version of history. The goal is to provide balanced, source-backed, multi-perspective research. Well-documented events should not be treated as optional beliefs, but disputed interpretations, political framing, numbers, causes, consequences, and memory should be explained carefully when relevant. **Strict No-AI Requirement:** No AI tools may be used to generate, write, rewrite, summarize, research, cite, or produce any part of this work unless I give direct written approval beforehand. This includes AI-written research summaries, AI-generated citations, AI-created source lists, AI-assisted rewriting, or AI-generated outlines. All research must be human-conducted, source-backed, original, and verifiable. I may ask for Google Docs version history, source links, working notes, drafts, citations, and process documentation to confirm the work was created by a real person. **Deliverables May Include:** * Country or territory research brief * Source list with links and citation notes * Historian/expert list with credentials and contact information * Timeline of major events * Notes on debated topics and multiple perspectives * Recommended deeper reading links * Recommended longer free videos * Suggested visuals, maps, artifacts, and landmarks * Sensitivity notes for serious or disputed topics * Pronunciation notes for key names and places * Suggested quiz/tidbit topics **To Apply, Please Include:** 1. Your research background 2. Any history, area studies, anthropology, museum, journalism, or academic experience 3. Countries, territories, or regions you know well 4. A sample research brief or citation-based writing sample 5. Your preferred rate per country brief or hourly rate 6. How you would verify the credibility of historians and sources 7. How you would handle disputed or politically sensitive historical topics 8. Whether you are open to long-term work across many countries and territories I am looking for someone who can help build a trustworthy research foundation for a global travel-learning app.