Historycommons.org Website Review

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 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. Specifically we are looking for tech entrepreneurs who are pas*ionate about creating a new people-centered crowdsourced model 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 gras*roots level to as*ume 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 21,018 new events have been added to the History terrorism,” civil liberties, the Iraq war, the Iran confrontation, and more. We are planning some big changes! Please follow us to stay updated and be part of our community. The History Commons contains summaries of 21,018 events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These 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 The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for people to conduct gras*roots-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