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Detail of Thomas Moran's "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," featuring a waterfall pouring into a majestic mountain canyon. The cliffs are illuminated with golden, late-afternoon light.

Troika Backgrounds

By Brian Taylor • May 12th, 2022

Inspired by 1872.

Two panels of a larger comic strip in which a rich man is served a plate of ice cream while a fool takes notice.

A Fool’s Cap and a Plate of Ice Cream

By Peter Newell and Sara Clemens • May 11th, 2022

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit!

A black and white engraving of a large ship on stormy seas.

The Mary Celeste

By Deirdre Coyle • May 10th, 2022

I watched the 1935 thriller The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (released in the U.S. as Phantom Ship). I took notes while watching, which include helpful annotations like “what is even happening” and “yikes this is racist.”

An engraving of a fierce Roman chariot race. The drivers lash at their horses while throngs of people look on.

The Mysteries of Motorsport

By Ben Sailer • May 6th, 2022

A melon farmer accidentally falls into a time warp and is commissioned to produce words on a popular videogame by the insatiable content overlords of Unwinnable Monthly LLC.

An etching of Boston harbor during the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Boston is Burning!

By Justin Reeve • May 5th, 2022

Many of the structures were too tall to reach by fire ladder and there wasn’t enough water pressure in the fire hoses to put out the flames on some of the rooftops.

A sepia photograph of seven men in coats and hats standing on a temporary ramp ascending to the top of the still under-construction Brooklyn Bridge.

As the Sea-Gull Flies

By Emily Price • May 4th, 2022

The success of the Met in the last few months has inspired a new museum that has opened in our very own South Brooklyn: The Sea-Gull Gallery, a two-story establishment not five blocks from our offices.

A sepia-toned pen and ink drawing of a couple ensconced in a game of chess. The man holds his head in his hands.

Kings of the Cable: The British Chess Association Festival of 1872

By Levi Rubeck • May 3rd, 2022

With more players gaining proficiency with pawns and rooks and bishops by the day, a hunger has emerged – the people cry out for more games, more analysis and more rivalry!

A grainy sepia photograph of the windows on a New Jersey apartment building.

Meet the Met!

By Matt Marrone • April 29th, 2022

While no one would mistake the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a restaurant or trading post, its moniker lacks a certain. . . flair.

A sepia-toned pen and ink lithograph of three men each looking into an arm of a tripod microscope

We Should Pay Attention to Germ Theory!

By Rob Rich • April 28th, 2022

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch have an interesting theory about sickness, and we should start paying attention.

A sepia-toned, pen and ink drawing of a telegraph machine.

A Near Miss for International Communication and Progress!

By Phoenix Simms • April 27th, 2022

We have never been more aware that a man is a social creature and part of a very large web of interconnections in this world!

A sepia-toned photograph of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a capella group from Fisk University.

Sigurd Springer’s Music Box

By Noah Springer • April 26th, 2022

In correspondence from a temporarily quiet battlefield, Private First Class Sigurd Springer writes on the premier melodians of 1872.

A pen and ink drawing of Victorian children playing a game of hoop & stick.

The Future of Merry-Making!

By Ed Coleman • April 22nd, 2022

Hoop & stick (and other frivolities).

A sepia-toned close-up of the first stone tablet of Gilgamesh.

More Like Gilga-meh!

By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2022

This supposed epic, this paradigm-shifting piece of literature, is just another flood myth! Do you know how many flood myths we already have lying around?

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – April 1872

By David Shimomura • April 15th, 2022

A trip down memory lane for this special milestone!

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