Project 500 Years

Earlier this week, I wrote about some of the activities undertaken by the Indian Affairs Committee of the Baltimore Society of Friends…

On Monday, I wrote about the involvement of Quakers in William Penn’s settler-colonial project in Turtle Island in the 17th century CE…

On Friday, I sent out an “institutional” email blast on behalf of Just World Educational, the non-profit educational org that I founded in…

In 1972, the Holocaust survivor, celebrated Nazi-hunter, and ardent Zionist Simon Wiesenthal published a book in German titled Segel der…

Christopher Columbus was born in the bustling north-Italian port city of Genoa in 1451 CE, just a couple of years before the Ottoman Turks…

The French and the Anglo-Saxons have gotten into a big pissing match over Australia’s decision to nix a longstanding contract for…

Throughout history there have been numerous empires, none of which was built using peaceful means. All were built through the use of…

I’m at the transition point between completing the big essay on the birth of the Portuguese empire, which I published August 30, and…

In the longform essay on the birth and early decades of the Portuguese empire that I published last week, I referred to the uses the…

1492? How about 1415 CE?

(A Twitter thread by @helenacobban)

What we are seeing in Afghanistan today, in almost real time, is the implosion and final collapse of the imperial project the US launched…

I’ve been writing my longform article about the role Portugal played in pioneering the concept, practice, and justifying ideologies of…

It’s just over a month since a family emergency called me away from the work I had been doing, posting a daily-per-year bulletin here to…

Hi everyone. Last Thursday, June 24, I published the 176th daily bulletin in this project, which covered the year 1695 CE. I had anyway…