I would like to direct you to a website which was voted by the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) as one of the 20 best education Websites on the Internet. Created by a colleague, Dr. Thomas C. Tirado of the History Department at Millersville (Pennsylvania) University, the CIRS (Computerized Information Retrieval System), is made up of hundreds of Columbus Quincentenary resources.

Among the contents of the CIRS are six of the seven volumes of my publication, DISCOVERY FIVE HUNDRED. For some reason, the last volume did not get into the system. Nevertheless, DISCOVERY FIVE HUNDRED, Volumes 1 through 6, covering the years 1986 through 1991 are available on the internet through the CIRS project. This series was published through an organization I founded which was known as "The International Columbian Quincentenary Alliance" (ICQA), and the material is catalogued under the "ICQA" label.

You can access 17 issues of "DISCOVERY FIVE HUNDRED" at

CIRS: First six volumes (May, 1986 thru December, 1991)

Final Volume (VII) in pdf format:

Volume 7, No. 1 and 2 - Spring/Summer, 1992 (16 pages)

Volume 7, No. 3, - Fall, 1992 (8 pages)

Volume 7, No. 4 - Final Issue: December, 1992 (10 pages)

This final issue consists of a retrospective on the Columbian Quincentenary with several editorial articles by Joe Laufer and a catalog of Quincentenary activities spearheaded by Joe. Highly recommended reading!