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The social studies class students don't want to skip

Students interview, debate, and role-play 1,200+ historical figures grounded in primary sources, and teachers get standards-aligned assignments that auto-grade themselves

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Solving the engagement problem
58%
of high-school teachers call students’ lack of interest in learning a major problem.
Pew Research, 2024
54%
of Gen Z students lack an engaging school experience, at the high end of estimates.
Gallup, 2024
83%
of students say there aren’t enough opportunities at school to be curious.
EdWeek / Discovery Education, 2024

Five ways students step into the past

Every Humy is grounded in primary sources, so however students engage, they’re reasoning with the real record — not a chatbot’s guess.

  1. 01

    Interview

    Students question a figure directly — practicing inquiry, active listening, and the follow-up reasoning that turns reading comprehension into real understanding.

    Live conversation
  2. 02

    Debate

    Students build and defend an argument against up to ten historical figures at once, pushing past recall into evidence-based, higher-order thinking.

    Live conversation
  3. 03

    Simulation

    Students step into a historical role and make decisions inside the moment — developing empathy and perspective by living the period, not just reading it.

    Live conversation
  4. 04

    Open Questions

    Short-answer and open-ended prompts, each with an ideal answer and a set number of attempts, so students reason on the page and revise toward mastery.

    Written response
    SAQShort answer
  5. 05

    Essay

    Document-based and long-form writing scored against your rubric — the analytical writing your standards already ask for, generated and graded in minutes.

    Written response
    DBQLEQFRQ
Every assignment is —

Standards-aligned

Federal, state, and international standards, K-12 through university.

Graded by your rubric

Custom criteria and performance levels, auto-scored with written feedback.

Grounded in sources

Every figure is built on real historical documents and primary sources.

Leveled for every reader

Reading level set from primary school to lifelong learners, per group.

Reviews from Educators

We enjoyed the program last year and used it frequently.
My students say it’s a welcome change of pace. I’m not a fan of the “sage on the stage” model, so I try to incorporate research-oriented and self-paced activities. With Humy, students have to take charge of their learning. They’ve become more adept at critical thinking, forming better questions, and improving their reading comprehension. The interview feature has been my go-to tool. I create assignments where students must ask historical figures a set number of questions, then summarize the responses to ensure they’re truly absorbing the material. This approach lets them actively explore the past rather than passively consuming information.
Humy has helped me bring historical figures, sometimes long past, to life. When my students interact with these figures in real-time, it eliminates some of the perceived “ancient” characteristics of my curriculum. This has shifted my students’ thinking away from viewing history as abstract or irrelevant. Real-time interactions make historical figures relatable, even allowing students to ask off-topic questions that help put historical lives in a more relevant context for 13-year-olds. The feature I use the most is the interview feature. After teaching a topic, most recently Gandhi and Joan of Arc, I have the students ask pointed, focused questions. We practice good conversation techniques beforehand, teaching them to listen (or read) carefully and formulate thoughtful follow-up questions rather than just interrogating. It helps students practice effective conversation skills.
Through Humy’s dynamic platform, students engage in inquiry-driven explorations, where they not only interact with historical personas but also unearth leads to primary and secondary documents.
Humy’s user-friendly platform has enhanced my students’ engagement and understanding of history. It helps them develop critical thinking and engage in insightful discussions.
I introduced Humy as part of my student project and was surprised by the high level of engagement from my students. It added completely new dimensions to the project.
Humy revolutionizes education with personalized learning, tailored instruction, and enhanced student engagement. It fosters an interactive classroom, allowing hesitant students to confidently participate by engaging with historical figures like Frederick Douglass. Outstanding!
Humy saves me 4 hours per week on grading, and the feedback students receive is awesome. I really like it. I showed it to my principal, and he was blown away by it. The feedback part is really awesome.
For young learners especially, the first task of a history teacher is to inspire interest. We’d argue that allowing them to chat with Lincoln will do that better than giving them a printed sheet of facts.

Try the class your students won't skip

Free plan for educators · students join with a link, no accounts

Unmatched student engagement and time savings

7+h

Average time a teacher saves per week on grading and lesson planning with Humy

30sec

It takes to generate an assignment or a lesson plan

85%

Of surveyed middle school students (out of 60) want to use Humy every week

Assignment builder

Save time with AI-generated & graded assignments

  • Generate a debate, essay, historical simulation, interview, or open questions assignment in less than 30 seconds
  • Have AI provide feedback to students’ submissions
  • Save hours every week on assignment grading
Humy assignment builder interface showing AI-generated assignments
Historical figure library

Create a personal connection with 1,200+ historical figures

  • Make learning more engaging and accessible
  • Transform documents into engaging conversations
  • 24/7 available for every type of student
  • Available in 50+ languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and more
  • Ask in text or by voice; Humy replies with source-grounded answers — images, math, tables, and primary-source artefacts in text mode
Humy historical figure library showing AI-powered conversations with historical characters
Call historical figure

Have a live voice conversation with any historical figure

  • Talk to historical figures as if they were in the room — hear their voice, ask questions, and get real-time responses
  • Develop critical thinking through Socratic dialogue and follow-up questions
  • Perfect for auditory learners and students who thrive in conversation
  • Practice interview and debate skills in an immersive, risk-free setting
  • Available 24/7 — students can call a historical figure anytime, from anywhere
Humy voice call feature allowing live conversations with historical figures
AI persona builder

Support every student with custom AI tutors

  • Easily create custom AI tutors and assignments
  • Share with your students via a link, no login required
  • Upload your primary sources and curriculum
  • Join educators who’ve built 20,000+ custom Humies
Humy AI persona builder for creating custom AI tutors
Content generator

Generate study materials, lesson plans, & assignments in seconds

  • Generate study materials tailored to your class in minutes
  • Easily design detailed lesson plans with AI assistance
  • Level texts, come up with ideas, generate rubrics
Humy content generator creating study materials and lesson plans

Simple to useNo tech skills required

  • 1Generate learning material or AI tutors
  • 2Share with your students via link
  • 3View submissions & chats
Humy product screenshot showing ease of use

School-Ready

  • Data privacy agreement
  • Required IT configurations
  • Source provider letter
Humy school compliance and security

FAQ (updated in 2026)

Have more questions? Contact us.

Humy is a web-based educational platform and the successor to Hello History. It enables students to have in-depth conversations with over 1,200 AI-powered historical figures. A figure can be given an archive of primary sources — letters, speeches, scanned books, photographs — which it searches during the conversation and quotes with a reference back to the document. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Humy is purpose-built for historical work: students can open the cited source and read the passage in its original context.

No. Social studies is where many teachers start, but the library holds 1,200+ figures across science, literature, art, philosophy, music, civics, and world religion — from Marie Curie and Isaac Newton to Shakespeare, Frida Kahlo, Socrates, and Beethoven. Because answers can include images, math formulas, and tables and work in 50+ languages, teachers use Humy in science, English, world languages, art, and ethics classes just as readily as in history.

General chatbots improvise a persona and offer no guardrails for the classroom. Every Humy is grounded in curated primary and secondary sources, and you stay in control: you build standards-aligned assignments, set a grading rubric, cap attempts, turn copy-paste off, and choose the reading level for each group. Students join from a link or QR code with no account. That same structure applies in any subject: a chemistry interview with Curie, a literature debate, or a philosophy simulation all run through the same teacher controls.

Each figure pairs a Google Gemini model with curated historical documents and primary sources, so answers stay anchored to the record rather than invented. When a figure quotes a source, the quotation is resolved by Humy's backend against the original document rather than generated — the model never writes a quote, and students can open the cited document to read the passage in context. The more documents you add to a custom figure, the more precise it becomes, and you can give feedback to refine it over time.

Humy supports Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Gemini 3.1 Pro. You decide per figure version which of these students can use in chat and which one is the default, so a large class can run on a faster, cheaper model while an AP seminar gets the more capable one. Faster models use fewer credits, which keeps a class set of conversations affordable.

Five formats: interview, debate, historical simulation, open questions (open-ended or short-answer), and essay, including DBQ, LEQ, FRQ, and concept-application prompts. You set the grade level from K-12 through university and lifelong learners, the language, and the standards, whether federal, state, or international. The formats are subject-agnostic, so you can debate an ethical question in philosophy, interview a scientist for a lab unit, or assign a free-response essay in any AP-level course, not only history.

Yes. Humy generates a rubric with criteria and performance-level descriptors, grades submissions against it automatically, and writes feedback for each student that you can review and adjust. You decide whether grading is on, how many attempts students get, whether they see the rubric in advance, and whether copy-paste is allowed. The same rubric grading works for a science explanation, an English essay, or a world-language task.

Students can type or start a real-time voice call, and any written answer can be played back as speech. Voice suits auditory learners and accessibility, and because Humy supports 50+ languages it also serves as conversation and pronunciation practice in world-language classes. Images and rich formatting appear in text mode rather than during voice calls.

You share each activity as a link, a QR code, or an embedded iframe, and you choose whether students join anonymously or enter their name. QR codes suit exhibitions and classroom stations, links suit assigned work, and the iframe drops Humy straight into your LMS or a public website. The same options support a museum exhibit, a science station, a poetry corner, or a language lab, with no student accounts required.

Yes. You can create a custom Humy from a name, a short biography, and your own documents and artefacts in text, image, and video, and educators have already built more than 20,000. Make a cell-biology coach, a guide to a specific novel, a museum curator, or a subject expert, then add instructions such as 'use Socratic questioning' or 'focus on the experiments.' For larger projects, our team also builds tailor-made figures for schools, universities, and museums.

Each figure can have several versions. You set the reading level from primary school through university and lifelong learners, add instructions like 'speak in Spanish' or 'focus on the scientific method,' and share each version separately so different groups get the right fit at the same time. Teachers use this to level a science text, run one lesson in two languages, or differentiate across a mixed-ability English class.

It works well beyond the K-12 classroom. Grade levels include university and lifelong learners, and Humy is already used across higher education, including history departments and communication and product-management programs, as well as in museums and cultural institutions that embed figures in their exhibits. Wherever people learn from sources and personalities, the platform fits.

Yes. While Humy is designed with classrooms in mind, you can absolutely use it outside of school for personal learning and exploration. If you'd prefer a mobile experience, try the Hello History app (https://www.hellohistory.ai/), which lets you chat with historical figures on the go.

You can share AI chats through a simple web link, which does not require students to have an account.

Please reach out to hello@humy.ai and share email of your school admin.

Yes, we are happy to submit vendor paperwork. Please reach out to hello@humy.ai

Yes, you can onboard multiple teachers under one account, however the price will depend on number of teachers you invite

Yes, please reach out to hello@humy.ai