About

At the risk of stating the obvious, the name 1001 Histories is inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. When I started this blog in 2017, I hoped to tell gripping tales that would leave people hungering for more.

I had fantasies that I might yet figure out how to support myself with my writing by providing infotainment. I no longer imagine my writing will ever support me and I mostly write for other reasons these days.

I have redacted the two whole posts I published in 2017, one of which was updated and published elsewhere some time ago. I am starting fresh because our president elect has made noises that he wants to be dictator for life and end this little American experiment called democracy and he is good buddies with a huge supporter of his whom I understand to be a white supremacist.

I recently wrote two different pieces that fascists and white supremacists would no doubt be happy to twist into being pro fascism and pro white supremacy if they knew I existed at all which no one appears to know. I'm absolutely not either of those things and I hope to begin writing about my understanding of history, which sometimes falls outside the Overton window, as my only defense against the dark arts of slander and slippery political slopes.

14 November 2024

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