Development of the HistoryCommons 2.0 app is well underway and we hope to do a beta release soon.
A lot of progress has been made and we are very excited. BUT ... our funds have dried up. Please donate today what you can so we can continue our work.
We are extremely low on funds, and this call for financial support is urgent. If we do not have funds to meet basic operation costs, we will have to shut
down the site. The only financial support we receive is from online fundraisers like this one.
With your help, we will ... - Continue to make the current site available.
- Build a new team to develop and market HistoryCommons 2.0. Specifically we are looking for
tech entrepreneurs who are passionate about creating a new people-centered crowdsourced model for journalism.
- Develop new apps and features for the HistoryCommons community, including a mobile HistoryCommons app, an app
and plugin for collecting sources and feeding them to HistoryCommons users, an API, and social media plugins and integrations
that will make it easy for people to embed HistoryCommons content into other works and share it across multiple platforms.
The History Commons makes it possible for people at the grassroots level to assume a dominant role in public and private sector oversight.
By supporting this effort, you are helping civil society end its reliance on the corporate media, which has failed in its presumed role as a
government and corporate watchdog. Since June of 2002, more than 20,873
new events have been added to the History Commons. These entries dealt with a variety of topics ranging from NSA domestic spying,
global warming, free trade, 9/11, “the war on terrorism,” civil liberties, the Iraq war, the Iran confrontation, and more.
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Find Information
The History Commons contains summaries of 20,873 events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation). You can even generate a “scalable context” timeline for any event in the History Commons database simply by clicking the date of the timeline entry. You can search for events by using the search box at the top right-hand corner, or by browsing through the list of projects.
Contribute Information
The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue, providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of government and private sector entities. It is collaborative and thus allows individuals to build upon the work of others. Each investigation is organized as a “project,” which is made up of at least one timeline. You can contribute to a project by adding new events to the timeline associated with that project. All submissions are peer-reviewed by other users before being published. If you would like to participate in this effort, you will first need to create a user account. Once you have done that, you can begin adding events to any timeline.
Share Information
The History Commons is a product of public collaboration created for public consumption. You are free to reuse, republish, and make derivative works from the textual content of the History Commons for non-commercial purposes (see terms for details). All timelines are exportable into XML so the data can be used in other applications.
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Events Recently Added to the Commons
- 10/21
- Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Joins Cheney in a Tunnel below the White House, Learns about the Pentagon Attack, Shortly Before 9:58 a.m. September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/21
- NORAD Does Not Tell the Air Threat Conference Call about Its Combat Air Patrol over Washington, (9:49 a.m.-10:54 a.m.) September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/21
- Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Sees the Second Crash on TV, Goes to Fetch the ‘Nuclear Football’ from His Office, 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/21
- Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Learns of the First Crash, Goes to Cheney’s Office, (8:50 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/21
- NORAD Does Not Contact Pentagon Command Center about the Hijackings, (8:38 a.m.-9:28 a.m.) September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/20
- Renovation Workers Are Worried about a Plane Hitting the Pentagon, Before September 11, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/20
- Top Navy Official Talks of the Need for an Attack Comparable to Pearl Harbor, September 10, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/20
- Report Warns that Al-Qaeda Intends to Carry Out an Attack in the US, September 10, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/20
- CENTCOM Commander Franks Says He Fears a Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center, September 7, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/20
- Air Defense Exercise Involves the Scenario of Bin Laden Using a Drone Aircraft to Attack Washington, August 4, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/19
- Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld Writes a Note, Warning of a ‘Modern-Day’ Pearl Harbor, July 23, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/19
- NEADS Personnel Are Briefed on the Threat Posed by Bin Laden, July 14, 2001, posted by matt
Recently Updated Events
- 10/20
- Counterterrorism Chief Clarke Warns that Hundreds of Americans Could Die in an Al-Qaeda Attack, September 4, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/18
- Terrorism Experts Say Al-Qaeda Is Planning to Carry Out Attacks in the US, May 31, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/18
- Workshops at the WTC Consider How Globalization Is Affecting National Security, May 1, 2000-June 4, 2001, posted by matt
- 10/18
- Risk Management Software Determines that the Pentagon Is a Likely Terrorist Target, 2000, posted by matt
- 4/23
- Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gives Confused and Inaccurate Account of Military Response to the 9/11 Attacks during Hearing, September 13, 2001, posted by matt
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