Revolution Crossroads — Cross-Collection Search (Proof of Concept)

A thin window onto the three published Revolution Crossroads datasets on the Hugging Face Hub — NARA Revolutionary War Pension Files, LOC Chronicling America newspapers, and Smithsonian collections (1770–1810) — searched all at once.

This is not a custom search engine or a new index, and it doesn't derive any new data. Every query runs directly against Hugging Face's built-in Dataset Viewer search API, querying the datasets exactly as they're published — nothing here is re-indexed, copied, or transformed; you're looking straight at the source datasets.

Because that API is BM25 (it matches either word of a multi-word query), use Match: phrase for names like Phoebe Foster; spelling variants in old OCR may still be missed.