History Commons Archive
History Commons was an open-content investigative journalism project containing summaries of 19,816 documented events organized in investigative timelines. This is a restored, read-only edition rebuilt from publicly available copies of the original site.
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- Complete 9/11 Timeline The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the events surrounding them. 7,279 events
- Civil Liberties Surveillance, detention, and the erosion of civil liberties. 1,841 events
- Torture, Rendition, and Abuse Detainee treatment and interrogation policy. 757 events
- The Iraq War The 2003 invasion of Iraq and the occupation that followed. 2,476 events
- US Domestic Terrorism Domestic extremist violence and the response to it. 1,296 events
- US Health Care Health-care policy, reform fights, and the insurance industry. 536 events
- Nixon and Watergate The Watergate scandal and the Nixon administration. 479 events
- The Military Analyst Program The Pentagon's media-analyst propaganda effort. 1,873 events