History Commons
| A collaborative research site, collecting and organising facts from the corporate media. The site was famous for its very detailed 9/11 timeline by Paul Thompson. |
Started: 2001
Founders: Derek Mitchell, Michael Bevin
Owner: Center for Grassroots Oversight
In its own words:
"To provide a means for members of civil society to monitor the activities of powerful entities, such as governments, large corporations, and wealthy and influential individuals."
History Commons was a website that documents events and issues of great social and political significance, focusing primarily on events from the 1970s on. The site is famous for its very detailed 9/11 timeline by Paul Thompson, which was brought back as an archive in 2025 by the International Center for 9/11 Justice. Also other pages are available in an archived form.
History
It was originally sponsored by The Global Center and then by operated by the Center for Grassroots Oversight. The website was previously named Center for Cooperative Research, and was located at cooperativeresearch.org.[1]
Importance
History Commons had a pretty high threshold for inclusion, giving it a high reputation for reliability. Compared to Wikispooks, it is more wedded to commercially-controlled media. In this respect it is similar to Wikipedia, but it is not subject to the same censorship, so it has details about a number of events such 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack, which are completely missing on Wikipedia. If you are creating a new page here, it is good to include a reference to historycommons if one is available.
Activity
As of September 2016, the site was semi-dormant; fatal errors were being attended to, but new material was no longer being added. The site's most recent tweet, from 6 January 2014, was a request for funds and the main site features an "urgent" request for funds.[2] The site remained readable, however, though the last edit was made in July 2016.[3]
By 2021 the website had become inactive, possibly due to lack of funds.[4]
It was brought back as an archive in 2025 by the International Center for 9/11 Justice.[5][6]. The URL historycommons.org is no longer in use.[7]
History Commons On Wikispooks
Events
Groups
People
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.08.29-192258/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Commons
- ↑ https://twitter.com/historycommons
- ↑ http://www.historycommons.org/
- ↑ https://medium.com/@91erik/historycommons-org-revolutionary-app-may-go-offline-dd50143dcfb4 saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://corbettreport.com/the-9-11-timeline-solutionswatch/
- ↑ https://ic911.org/complete-911-timeline/
- ↑ As of 2025 it was AI generated spam https://historycommons.org/